Quotes About Activism

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

I want to do the most feminist, radical film.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.