Quotes About Activism

Cómo es posible que la sucesión de masacres escolares en Estados Unidos no haya conmovido al país lo suficiente como para imponer el fin de la venta libre de armas?

Silence is the enemy of social change.

There was a protest outside the Gilead Consulate in Toronto, but it wasn't well attended: Melanie and Neil weren't famous, and they weren't politicians. I didn't know whether to be sad or angry. Melanie and Neil being murdered made me angry, and so did remembering nice things they'd done when they were alive. But things that should have made me angry, such as why Gilead was being allowed to get away with it, only made me sad.

the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

And one of the other routes we looked at crosses a wetlands. The bird lovers would be out in force.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.