Quotes About Activism

I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.

Some who campaign against hate, seem to hate the Brexit party more than they love peace.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

I've always had opinions on what was going on in my community. I always knew a lot of people listened to me, so why don't I speak on police brutality and things like that?

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.

Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

My skin burned for 22 hours after I was pepper-sprayed.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

Being from the Sudan, there is a lot of stuff going on in Sudan, so I try to do a lot there with my foundation. That's my way of giving back.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

We do not have to sit back and suffer the consequences of corrupt government deals and inefficiency, but unless a large number of people are convinced of this, nothing will change.

Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no one in the world, yet for some incredible reason, black people have suffered at an extraordinary level all over the world.