Activist Quote by Vandana Shiva

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

— Rosanna Arquette

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

— Pearl Cleage

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

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

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

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

Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and…

— Bonnie Raitt

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

My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.

— Michael Tubbs

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

— Lady Gaga