Quotes About Activism

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

I speak for the trees!

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Tens of millions of Americans now live longer and healthier lives because activists all over our nation fought for our American values of fairness and economic justice.

fight is worthwhile," Lehman said, "even if you know you're going to lose it. It's the only way to crystallize attitudes, educate people.

true believers in the ability of government to do good—often find it difficult to limit themselves to a few issues.

More recently, progressives have fought for abortion rights, universal health care, strong environmental laws to combat climate change, equal rights for gay and transgender Americans, gun safety laws, consumer protections, and a ban on political contributions from corporations.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.