Quotes About Activism

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.