Quotes About Activism

There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is.

You have to take a stand when things aren't right.

Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.

I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of "Bambi Ethics" or "Bambi Environmentalism." They apply human morals to nature in a superficial way, without considering the actual ethical or environmental consequences of their actions.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down

After years of watching their patrimony squandered in this way, a large percentage of the [Niger] Delta's population feels abandoned by both national and local politicians, and has settled on illegal bunkering as the most direct way to ensure that they benefit from their own oil wealth. The trouble is that what started as activism has become an industry. In the words of one activist, 'It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate greed from grievance.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

he should be remembered as the first pope in history to undertake an active defense of the Jewish people, wherever they might be found.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Get in trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.