Quotes About Activism

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.

If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I see my shows like Gandhi, and I've got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I'm a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

I became personal friends with Erica Garner and with so many other families affected by police violence.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?

I'm not a gay rights activist.

As I got more into gay rights, I got more into equal pay, and you just see that it's all connected. You can't really speak out on one thing and not another without it not being the full picture.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.