Quotes About Activism

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

Get up, stand up; stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up; don't give up the fight!

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Given that animals are nothing more than mere tools for the production of capital, the only way to abolish their exploitation is to challenge their status as properties and commodities.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Freedom comes to those who fight but not to those who cry, because the you cry is the more your people continue to die, so rise and defend your right - Bobi Wine

Tam jede naÅ¡e nadÄ›je. NaÅ¡e mládež. Bojovat za Svobodnou Evropu. A co vy tady? Tisknete razítka na zadek telegrafistky!

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Saul Strauss used to be what Gavin would consider committed and passionate in a namby-pamby, Kumbaya-like, eco-green, granola-y, unrealistic sort of way, but more and more, the Sauls of the world had raised their rhetoric to the dangerously hysterical

but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready," Hester said.

I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle.

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.