Quotes About Activism

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

I'll keep fighting every day to put pressure on Senate leaders to do what's right for Kansas.

In DC, it's really edgy to listen to Kanye West or Jay-Z, and it's a thing to know who Azzedine Alaia is - you know what I mean? But I do care about issues, and I was really political in high school, always marching.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes - it always does - so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.

I always have thought that part of being involved with life is the same thing as just wanting to kick it with your friends, and being involved with life on a deeper level is wanting to change the situation that you're in.

I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.

Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.