Quotes About Activism

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of colour remains chained. Nor is any one of you.

For it is not the anger of Black women which is dripping down over the globe like a diseased liquid. It is not my anger that launches rockets, spends over sixty thousand dollars a second on missiles and other agents of war and death, slaughters children in cities, stockpiles nerve gas and chemical bombs, sodomises our daughters and our earth.

Because you are Black and lesbian, you seem to speak with the moral authority of suffering.' Yes, I am Black and lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority. There is a difference.

For it is not the anger of Black women which is dripping down over this globe like a diseased liquid.

Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am woman, because I am Black, because I am lesbian, because I am myself - a Black woman warrior poet doing my work - come to ask you, are you doing yours?

Our labor has become more important than our silence.

As Kalamu ya Salaam, a Black male writer points out, "As long as male domination exists, rape will exist. Only women revolting and men made conscious of their responsibility to fight sexism can collectively stop rape.

We have chosen each other and the edge of each others battles the war is the same if we lose someday women's blood will congeal upon a dead planet if we win there is no telling we seek beyond history for a new and more possible meeting.

The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.

Please use your liberty to promote ours

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

Much of the environmental movement is a Trojan Horse for socialist assumptions and ambitions (the British like to call environmentalists "watermelons"—green on the outside, red on the inside).

Obviously, political activism means creatively using available tools and material resources, but it should not entail imagining the tools themselves to have intrinsic redemptive values.