Quotes About Activism

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

If my idol Mahatma Gandhi could fight to eradicate corruption at the age of 78, why can't I try at 60?

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

What happens if you stand passively by the side of the road with a placard saying, you know, 'Stop climate change' is you just get ignored. When you get on the street and block it, people start to have a conversation about this existential situation that we're in.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.

I am more than an immigration activist.

We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.

I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

I think, in terms of activism associated with my films, be it 'Salaam Baalak Trust' or 'Maisha,' taking the idea of cinema as a way to change people, I feel heartened. I am glad that we have impacted thousands of lives.

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

I still describe myself as the activist with cleavage. Breast implants made me feel a lot sexier.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not the only part of the story.