Quotes About Activism

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Larry Hjort, an AIDS activist, gave counsel to people who were overwhelmed with the needs of their dying friends. "Everyone is perfectly adequate," he said. "There are just some impossible situations.

tree-hugging babe," he said. "Bean-babe. Geesh, trees? Plastic?

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica

Essere giovane e non essere rivoluzionario è una contraddizione perfino biologica." - I vecchi giovani e i giovani vecchi - discorso tenuto nel dicembre del 1972 "Ser joven y no ser revolucionario, es una contradicción hasta biológica." - a una gran cantidad de estudiantes de la Universidad de Guadalajara en México.

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

For the moment, at least, human rights history is worth telling because it reveals how partial our activism has become, choosing sufficiency alone as intractable crises in politics and economics continue to mount.

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

The personal is theoretical.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

I guess I have to thank Shupe and all that marching for something, because my butt is as springy as a bag of Gummi Bears.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.