Quotes About Activism

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

I was born in revolution.

When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.

Bernie is great, but we've got to keep this political revolution going.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

We are revolutionaries.

I have been a revolutionary for much of my life.

We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

Get rid of Betsy DeVos.

I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

My movement is 'Rose Army.'

It's rubbish for somebody to say that food is not politics.