Quotes About Activism

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift.

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.

My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process.

Bringing climate change to the forefront of American politics means making politicians feel the heat - in their campaign coffers and at the polls - and it's time we voters make a change.

You've got to get out and talk to voters, and you've got to let them know who you are. Talk with them, listen to them, and let them know how you're going to fight for them.

I'm a member of the Michigan Democratic Party, a DSA member, member of the League of Women Voters, ACLU.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay.

We shall liberate our country.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.

Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.

I want to raise awareness about evils perpetuated on American citizens by other American citizens.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

It should be a badge of shame to have an A-rating from the NRA.