Quotes About Activism

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.

I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

Gul Makai' is a story of a brave heart and a gentle advocate of peace who fought for her right to go to school and became a global teacher.

RIP to George Floyd and condolences to the whole family.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

I think I've done a good job of trying to figure out ways to continue to use my voice and platform for the right things.

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

Truth was one of the few public women of her day who did not pick favorites when it came to the claims of race and sex. "If colored men get their rights and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before," she said. Not all black women agreed with her.

I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

My own efforts at peacemaking have been easy - in fact, rather enjoyable: CND marches, demos, protest meetings in Trafalgar and Grosvenor Squares, and visits to the women at Greenham, especially the glorious day in 1983 when thousands of us embraced the base and pinned beautiful pictures and objects to the ugly wire.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.