Political activism Quote by Tom Robbins

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins

“All these iterations have been political interventions: as provocation, as direct action to discomfort, as challenge to what I consider nonliberatory praxis. They are…

— Cindy Milstein

“Shifting the focus from why to how can help people become less radical. In a series of experiments, when people with extreme political views…

— Adam M. Grant

“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

— Timothy Snyder

“It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail,…

— Pat Califia

“In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt…

— Francis Stuart Campbell

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with…

— Derrick Jensen

“Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because in itself…

— Rebecca Solnit

I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”

— Heather Paxson

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham