Quotes About Activism

Sometimes when I pose for pictures, people say it's impossible that I have a flat stomach without working out like crazy and having a personal trainer, and sometimes they get mad at me, and I find that hard because I think there's a lot of women who have the same thing happening to them because they lived a healthy, active lifestyle.

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.

We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.'

I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

All our friends - so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We're just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists - AIDS activists.

Being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender) in Russia is anything but fun.

For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don't always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter's school. I just want to be considered a woman.

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

I have fought for public transportation.

But how do we get men and women before they are hunted like foxes and trapped like rats and treated like ants to understand the concept of unity, working, building, living together? It seems the Black National Anthem is If it's broke, don't fix it.

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

And you told us: the storm is rising against the privileged minority of the earth, from which there is no shelter in isolation or armament and you told us: the storm will not abate until a just distribution of the fruits of the earth enables men (and women) everywhere to live in dignity and human decency.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Ze [Florence Nightingale] organiseerde ontelbare pacifistische congressen en de triomf van haar leven was dat ze Alfred Nobel, de uitvinder van het dynamiet, zo op het geweten werkte dat hij als compensatie voor het onheil dat hij met zijn uitvinding van het dynamiet had aangericht, de Nobelprijs voor de vrede en een beter internationaal begrip instelde.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!