Activists Quote by Rosanna Arquette

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when…

— Paul Farmer

I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University…

— Mazie Hirono

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in…

— Justin Sane

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner…

— Jared Polis

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that…

— Joan Baez

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there…

— Laura Jane Grace

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as…

— Janis Ian

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

— Todd Akin

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in…

— Bill Ayers