Quotes About Activism

I am not here to entertain straight people.

The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it

The intellectuel engagé had a duty to dedicate himself to revolutionary activity, to question established orthodoxies, and to champion the interests of all oppressed groups

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Do one of three things.One,go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.Two,go psycho and start bombing-but this will only swing people to the right.Three,learn a lesson.Go home,organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegatepos

For some of us, politics means fighting for our right to exist

Everyone is called to live their lives right now in the kingdom of God, to practice now as if they were already in the fullness of the presence of the God of peace. As we do, we will reject every form of violence, from war and executions to racism and sexism to nuclear weapons and corporate greed to destructive behavior to the creatures and Mother Earth.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.