Quotes About Activism

We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of racial terror.

Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.

Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.

My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it.

For those who may not know, it was the CBC that put in place the legislation that put sanctions against South Africa to end apartheid, and that took Mandela off the terrorist list.

I have been called a terrorist, among other things. In fact, I am seen in India as being anti-Islamic by the Islamic fundamentalists.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.

I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

I'm proud to join Cruelty Free International in calling on the United States to end cosmetics testing on animals.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Battle of Cable Street

fascists pioneered in the 1920s by creating the first European "catch-all" parties of "engagement,"17 readily distinguished from their tired, narrow rivals as much by the breadth of their social base as by the intense activism of their militants.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Quienes somos importa más que lo que hacen nuestros cuerpos. El ermitaño que se sienta solo en la cima de una montaña emitiendo una vibración de paz hace más para traer armonía al mundo que el furioso activista por la paz, cuya frecuencia sirve sólo para crear precisamente aquello contra lo que grita vehementemente.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

If for centuries women have been accused by the Right of being dangerously radical creatures and by the Left of being dangerously conservative ones, it is because the sub-patriarchal reality in which women live is a third politics altogether.