Quotes About Activism

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

People like to think of feminists as angry.

I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

I will absolutely be an advocate and a fighter where necessary.

We are revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance fighters.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

They say Kejriwal fights a lot. Yes I do, but not for my wife or children. I fight for your rights. So you tell me, should I fight or not?

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don't have time to be depressed anymore.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it.

I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.