Quotes About Activism

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

here's what good people do: We don't give up. We will not be cowed. We will refute their lies. We will get the vote, and we will use it. We will take them to court. We will march in their streets, and we will fight for justice every damned step of the way.

Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will break cement. Solzhenitsyn wrote, So the word is more sincere than concrete? So the word is not a trifle? Then may noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement. [Nadya Tolokonnikova's closing statement]

A movement exists to create change while a party strives to govern.

ON DECEMBER 31, 2010, Zhanna went to a protest with her father. For a year and a half now, activists had been gathering at Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow on the thirty-first day of every month that had thirty-one days. They gathered to demand observance of Article 31 of the Russian Constitution

activists who engaged in unsanctioned demonstrations (by this time, most opposition demonstrations were unsanctioned) should expect "to be hit over the head with a stick.

By mid-2010, a thirty-four-year-old attorney named Alexey Navalny was drawing tens of thousands of daily hits on his blog

The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would 'perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents'.

All are called to be prophets, which is to interfere with injustice.

Standing by while global warming happens is killing the Christ. Ecocide is a form of killing Christ.

Now project what would happen if the technique of the Berkeley rebellion were repeated on a national scale.

It was not so much, then, that people like the rapper Danis Cuspert and Dunya were brainwashed into an ideology of radicalism; they simply lacked the intellectual and psychological coping skills to channel their newly found beliefs into more productive and legal means: activism, charity work, human rights law, citizen journalism.