Quotes About Activism

I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films I do.

I'll never have the seniority of lions of the Senate who've been in office for decades. What I do have is a lifetime of experience as a parent and activist, small business owner, and lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

I care about affordable housing. I care about bus routes. I care about small business. I care about schools. These are not Muslim issues. Even protection of civil rights - that's not just a Muslim issue. That is for everyone.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

My body is not meant to small. I think even when I was at my fittest at 13 and 14 years old when I was dancing all the time and I was really active and constantly doing things, I was no smaller than an 8 and I was working my butt off for that.

The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

I'm just trying to find ways to give back and use my platform to put a smile on other people's faces and ultimately make change.

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Drawing from personal experience and also knowing that so many people, kids, are still living without sanitary water... makes you want to make it easier for them.

During the early waves of the women's movement, lesbianism was seen as a political alternative, a decision not to give aid and comfort to the enemy (men). How could a woman be truly feminist, they asked, if she shared her life and bed with a man? (..) "For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture," wrote one woman, "is an act of resistance.

Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

Estoy pensando en el redactor que organizaba la recogida de firmas para la amnistía de los presos políticos en Praga. Sabía perfectamente que aquello no ayudaría a los presos. El verdadero objetivo no era liberar a los presos, sino demostrar que aún había gente que no tenía miedo. Lo que hacía era teatro. Pero no tenía otra posibilidad. No podía elegir entre actuar o hacer teatro. La disyuntiva era: hacer teatro o no hacer nada.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

I support Bernie [Sanders] and I love his approach.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.