Quotes About Activism

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

I don't have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.