Quotes About Activism

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

I will join the fight for the DREAM Act that will create a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers.

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.