Quotes About Activism

In my real life, I'm a Black Lives Matter social justice activist, and so it was incredibly interesting to me to play somebody coming from the totally opposite side, whose beliefs are as deeply entrenched - as deeply felt, and given as much gravity, as I give my beliefs.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.

I feel like the NBA, WNBA, tennis and basketball have really been at the forefront of social justice and pushing for change from the athlete platform.

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.

We know firsthand how social media and the law have been weaponized against perceived critics of the Duterte administration. We've been reporting on it from the start.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

I'm a socialist.