Quotes About Activism

Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

Hayduke thought. Finally the idea arrived. He said, 'My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. That's simple, right?

Grow a beard, take a bath, burn a billboard

Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

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We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.

I am very clear that Pashtun rights should be provided.

The CUAG specializes in providing support to Chinese human rights lawyers.

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Paternalism is the method of government activism most amenable to an impoverished public sector.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I think it's important for black people in general to be aware of what's going on and do what you got to work around it. Not bow down to it publicly.

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

My goal is to bring the issues that were never brought up on federal TV, such as LGBT rights, which are a shock for many people because they really think that those people should go to prison, they shouldn't have any rights. And moreover, there is lots of people who share the idea that they should be punished for being LGBT, just for the fact.

Punk to me is about fighting for something your passionate about.

A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.