Quotes About Activism

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog

Intellectuals sign petitions, perhaps march in the streets, attempt their own soundbites when broadcasting, but confine their extended energies to debate and discourse among themselves.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Eighty Years and More: 1815–1898, Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Indy Publishing, 2004

Jean H. Baker. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. Hill and Wang: New York, 2006

He who devotes himself" M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008

Geoffrey C. Ward. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—An Illustrated History. Knopf: New York, 1999.

Kathleen Barry. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. First Books: Bloomington, IN, 2000

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995