Quotes About Activism

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

optimistic sense of the "goodness" of human nature is always the essential fuel for activism.

Historically, blacks and Latinos were routinely "carded"—denied admission—to white gay clubs; today, segregated socializing is less pronounced but an expansively "welcoming" atmosphere remains uncommon, and for trans people all but nonexistent. Lesbian activists, comparably, have been subject through time to gay male chauvinism so pronounced that they've felt the need periodically to form separate organizations.

for the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act.

From the earliest successes of the Nazi movement, even before 1933, he expressed his repugnance of Nazi excesses, and he continued to do so after 1933, despite repeated German protests at his articles and speeches.

Human progress depends on the socially maladjusted

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down. --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

For years now I have heard the word Wait! It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This Wait has almost always meant Never. We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Martin Luther King Jr.