Quotes About Activism

John Lewis walked across a bridge, in order to repair the infrastructure of our democracy. A bridge to the future.

I've always been fascinated by Madam Walker's ability to use her money for political causes. I find her story so inspires people that it gives me great joy to share the story.

Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

If you look at the people in the Occupy and tax-evading movements, they come from all walks of life and have embraced that attitude of opposition from the 1970s.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Ben Crump is the most dangerous man in America.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

I love individuals who care about what's going on the world and how we can help make it a better place.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

I am a Bolshevik.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

I'm all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of attention.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.