Quotes About Activism

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Active citizenship doesn't just mean running for office or going into politics; it means starting organisations that promote change or solve a problem, pursuing social good with economic success.

A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's radar.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

I've become more political as I've got older; I haven't mellowed - I've billowed.

The Black Panther Party may indeed be history, but the forces that gave rise to it are not. "They wait, for the proper season, to arise again.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

There's no such thing as neutrality. The people who use that label are people who unknowingly, for the most part, are dedicated to the support of the status quo.

Jugée petite-bourgeoise par les gauches, la cause des femmes est aussi présentée comme le cheval de Troie de l'impérialisme ; et dans le meilleur des cas, comme soluble dans la libération de la nation.

A great man has said that racism is the biggest cancer of his lifetime. But just because he can't cure that cancer didn't mean he shouldn't attack it in small ways." "Martin Luther King?" I asked. Judge Potter shook his head. "Charles Barkley.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Sabes que ese manzano fue plantado con la tierra robada a los Rodilla-Herida por el gobernador del estado? ¿Acaso tú conoces que su savia se nutre con los huesos y pelos prisioneros de San Quintín? Did you know that apple tree was planted on land stolen from Wounded Knee by the governor of the state? Perhaps you know how its sap is nourished with the prisoner bones and hair of San Quentin? (de Un Manzano de Oakland, para Angela Davis)

Antiabortion activists often make exceptions for rape and incest, which suggests that it is her desire for sex for which a woman must pay with her pain.

The vast majority of the victims of the Southern Cone's terror apparatus were not members of armed groups but non-violent activists working in factories, farms, shantytowns and universities. They were economists, artists, psychologists and left-wing party loyalists. They were killed not because of their weapons (which most did not have) but because of their beliefs.

And yet these protests have also shown that saying no is not enough. If opposition movements are to do more than burn bright and then burn out, they will need a comprehensive vision for what should emerge in the place of our failing system, as well as serious political strategies for how to achieve those goals.

The point of the exercise [torture] was getting prisoners to do irreparable damage to that part of themselves that believed in helping others above all else, that part of themselves that made them activists, replacing it with shame and humiliation.