Quotes About Activism

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

For me, it's clear Beyonce sees herself as a part of the movement for black lives and believes that black lives matter - and ultimately, that's what matters.

We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front line of such a huge question like climate change. You wouldn't want that as a parent.

We are firm on bringing the Navodaya schools to T.N. and if need arises we will not hesitate to agitate.

I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'

I want to use my platform to highlight and shed light on issues that are dear to me.

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.

It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the middle of the night and are never heard of again. Without a free press and the right of assembly, it is impossible not merely to appeal to outside opinion, but to bring a mass movement into being, or even to make your intentions known to your adversary. Is there a Gandhi in Russia at this moment? And if there is, what is he accomplishing?

The people chased the Conservative candidate half a mile and threw him into a pond full of duckweed. People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.

People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.

It's a queer thing, I thought, to be known as 'Mr So-and-so, the well-known anti-Fascist'. A queer trade, anti-Fascism.