Quotes About Activism

The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

I would love to do a biopic based on Aung San Suu Kyi's life.

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

When politicians say your voice does not matter because the NRA owns them, we say, 'No more.'

A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

I've been awarded fur coats and I'm hoping to stop it in our pageant community.

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.

If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.

People should learn more about Malala and about her life in Pakistan.

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.