Quotes About Activism

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

The Women's March hates Jews!

Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something.

I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.

The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

I join other players in calling for all teams to take a stand. We should not be subject to hate speech or racist acts at any time, and definitely not in our arenas.

When I got cleared by doctors and was coronavirus-free, one of the first things I did was get to marching in Boston. I wanted to join the people out there doing all they could to speak out against injustice and hatred and police brutality - folks looking to ensure the future of our country is better than its past.

I joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s and protested at Greenham Common.

I have joined the BJP to help disabled people.

First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.

Desegregation is a joke.

it diverts attention from older and larger groups whose serious problems have been ignored. A significant part of the white American working class has been dragged into an underclass, comparable to the experience of African-Americans during the 1970s and '80s. Yet one has heard little concern from activists on the left, at least until recently, about the burgeoning opioid crisis, or the fate of children growing up in impoverished single-parent families in the rural United States.