Quotes About Activism

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

I was taught from a very early age that it was probably the most American thing you can do is to question what's going on and to try to fix things that you see that aren't right. I believed that as a young person, and I believe that today.

I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.

As someone who wasn't heavily supported or resourced as a young person when I was going through the hardest times of my life, I'm used to operating outside of systems. The trans movement has always been that way.

By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.

It's not always easy being a full-time feminist - especially as a young woman - when you're constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I'm on the defense all the time.

I've always been interested in how things change, in social change. I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman, I've been involved in thinking about gender and issues around racism and so on.

As a young woman, I was always interested in lobbying. I thought to find a cause you're passionate about, to really work on behalf of that cause, work on lobbying your state legislatures or your federal legislatures, that was of interest to me.

Plan International protects the rights of children and young women, and I'm an ambassador for the 'Because I Am a Girl' campaign.

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.

I want to influence the younger generation to know that we have the ability to make a change and bring us all together. Black Lives Matter.