Quotes About Activism

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for while we think of them as people under different circumstances we might be able to help

We do not admire their president. We know why the White House is white. We do not find their children irresistible; We do not agree they should inherit the earth.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender" -Alice Walker

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

We are not white. We are not Europeans. We are black like the Africans themselves. And that we and the Africans will be working for a common goal: the uplift of black people everywhere.

Gli animali della terra esistono per se stessi. Non sono stati fatti per gli umani, così come i negri non sono stati fatti per i bianchi, né le donne per gli uomini

We were the kind of friends, instead, who understood that we were forever on the same side: the side of the poor, the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed, "the wretched of the earth.

work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

if enough people got angry enough, they could change things. Now anger was the answer to everything.

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions. But here's the truth: this despair isn't just self-defeating; I think it's actually empirically wrong. I reminded myself - forces as powerful as the tech companies have been defeated many times in human history, and it always happens in the same way. It is when ordinary people form movements and demand something better, and they don't give up until they have achieved it.

you don't need millions of people. You need a small group of people that get [what] the problems [are], and know about creative confrontation—to create drama around it, to begin the consciousness-raising…. You capture people's attention, and then enough people feel that it's a vital issue that they want to give their time and their energy [to], and that there's a clear direction.

If there isn't a group doing what you believe needs to be done, set it up and email me at [email protected], and I'll add it to the book's website and to future editions of this book.

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

I am in the world to change the world.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.