Quotes About Activism

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

As an activist, organizer, Palestinian, and a Muslim-American woman, I have faced many obstacles in the industry I work in. I often have to fight for my seat and representation for the communities I represent.

I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

I continue to take inspiration from John Locke, John Stuart Mill and those more recent freedom fighters of the 1960s who challenged conformism and repression.

When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

My favorite movie to watch on Republic Day would be 'The Legend of Bhagat Singh' or 'Rang De Basanti.'

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life. It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities I hold.

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.