Quotes About Activism

When I was a little girl, about eight, I remember going into the Body Shop - that was my first introduction to campaigning. There would always be a petition at the till about fair-trade or stop testing on animals, and the message was: get involved and make change.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

People don't want to read about my work with the homeless or the time and money I pour into animal rescue and organizations that fight poaching.

I think any time people are recognised for standing up for what they believe in and the way that they do it is a step forward, because if we don't stand up for what we believe in and we let people get away with not educating them for things that they have said they're going to think that behaviour is acceptable.

There are times when you need a strategic quarterback who has a proven record, and certainly, Colin Kaepernick is one of those.

I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.

If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.

When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people's lives are in danger, you have to decide that it's time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear.

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.

As a member of the Democratic Women's Working Group and Co-Chair of the Congressional Seniors Task Force, I will keep fighting for women's rights until they are completely secured. My daughters and granddaughters and millions of women and girls nationwide deserve our tireless efforts until we become a country where there is truly equality for all.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.

You don't just one day say, 'That's it, I'm doing this, I'm going to throw all my shoes out and I'm not eating honey and I won't drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires...' because you'd drive yourself around the bend.

I have to be honest: I feel like I live in a constant state of rage, and I think a lot of black people do.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.

One should not tolerate anything wrong. One should raise his/her voice against the wrongdoings. Don't ignore, just call out.

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'