Quotes About Activism

Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Counterracism was never an option.

Early in the anti-Vietnam War movement, Stegner marched with the students, but later, when the demonstrations turned violent, he was revolted and couldn't understand how breaking all the windows on the Stanford campus could bring an end to the war.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete.

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finché potete.

I'm a woman. And I'm Christian. And I believe that this regime should go.

But when my sister is arrested and they rape her, I have no problem entering any place in the world with a car strapped with explosives.

Je dénonce les actes de racisme et de haine envers les Noirs en Ukraine et dans le monde.

If someone is woke, it means they care about issues involving racial intolerance and societal injustice.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

I am interested in politics.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Some people say we've got a lot of malice,Some say it's a lot of nerve.But I say we won't quit movingUntil we get what we deserve.