Quotes About Activism

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.

On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.

Resist, however peacefully and even in your own home, and heaven help you, no matter what your skin color.

There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

I love reform better than its modes.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

I think Michael Moore is a hero. I love him.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!