Quotes About Activism

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

Fired up by the punk explosion, they wrote their first song—"Storming Tarragona." Named after the down-at-heel housing development where Boon lived, the song was about tearing down the projects and building real houses for people to live in. Boon and Watt, it turned out, had a powerful populist streak. "D. Boon didn't think our dads got a fair shake," Watt says, "and I think he was kind of railing against that ever since.

So they just made sure they weren't part of the problem and fought the good fight, knowing they'd never prevail.

The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of presumed supremacy, but at power and its social and physical infrastructure. To find weak points within scriptures and structures of the system, as one might examine an old block wall before demolition, seeking out crumbling mortar lines and cracked blocks. Then, to strike, and recruit more help - more and more - and strike, and strike, and bring it down.

Such men roamed the world acting, always anonymously, to procure the freedom of others, whether physical or metaphysical, emotional

A few peace activists, looking like peace activists all over the world, young, unassailable, and romantic, hand out roses. The message is old, the gesture likewise: the flower as a sign of good. There's a flaw in the symbolism, however, a permanent gash in this goodness: the flower withers. It lives for a moment. Then it withers in your hands.

If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist.

All the more reason to look for ways of uniting Caucasian Americans, African Americans, and all people of color in common struggle.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.

My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.

I fell in love with the legend of Paul Robeson as a kid. My dad would tell me all these amazing stories about his life and, bizarrely, ended up singing to Robeson on his deathbed.

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

I don't think one moment that we should sink to the levels of the Brexiters - the dodgy money, the electoral lawbreaking and the lying - but I do wonder if those of us who remain deeply concerned about the consequences of Brexit are really landing all the blows that we can.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

I'm always going to fight on behalf of my brothers and sisters.