Quotes About Activism

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

We need organisations like Vote Leave to operate permanently to give a voice to those who otherwise won't be heard.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

where freedom is menaced, or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral'. Indira

I'm against all war.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

For almost 20 years, I've worked on various campaigns. I started out as a phone volunteer. I'd go into campaign offices, ask for lists of Native American voters, and just start calling people because I felt that I just wanted to help more Native folks get to the polls.