Quotes About Activism

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

One-half of the people of this nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

WITCH. The useful acronym stood for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, but it could also mean Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History, Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays, and a host of imaginative variations. Proclaiming that witches were the original female rebels, hounded, persecuted, and burned at the stake because they had knowledge that men wanted suppressed, WITCH devoted itself to hit-and-run guerrilla theater, called "zaps.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these people described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

Social change comes through people.

If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable charisma of drag, I feel like if we worked together, we could really effect major social change and world change.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

I'm sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I'm certain my parents would agree it is gratifying to see young people leading social change projects in a multiracial coalition.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.