Activists Quote by Wole Soyinka

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the…

— Cherrie Moraga

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent…

— Arundhati Roy

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they…

— Arundhati Roy

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength…

— Miguel Syjuco

I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated,…

— Salman Rushdie

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to…

— Ben Edwards

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by…

— Leonid Brezhnev

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn