Quotes About Activism

The crowd began chanting, "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!

Why have you LEFT POLITICS? LEFT POLITICS needs you!

Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.

it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.

Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.

If for any reason you don't like the word feminist, look for another word. The name is not important as long as the work gets done for yourself and for your sisters in the rest of the world who need it.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

Enough of euphemisms. Enough of partial solutions. Profound changes are needed in society and it's us, women, who can impose them. Remember that no one gives us anything. We have to seize what we want. We need to create global awareness and get organized. Now, more than ever before, this is possible because we have information, communication, and the ability to mobilize.

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Qué queríamos cambiar? Nada menos que el mundo, y con la arrogancia de la juventud, pensábamos que se podía hacer en unos diez o quince años.

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c'è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un'aberrazione in un paese dove i cambiamenti si possono ottenere con votazioni popolari.

More than forty years ago Bella Abzug, the famous activist and congresswoman from New York, summarized the above in one sentence: "In the twenty-first century women will change the nature of power instead of power changing the nature of women." My

During the war the Chilean Nazi Party paraded with brown uniforms, flags bearing swastikas, and arms raised in a Nazi salute. My grandmother ran alongside, throwing tomatoes at them. This woman was an exception because in Chile people were so anti-Semitic that the word Jew was a dirty word, and I have friends who had their mouths washed out with soap for having dared say it.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

To be known as an actor is to be known for your role and lines. But the country knows me for the stance I have taken, for the villages I have adopted, the social work I do, the comfort zone I have left.

A lot of the issues today may not affect us personally, but we can't stay in our comfort zone when it comes to protecting our brothers and sisters. We have to get out there and use our voices for them as well.

I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the floor of an ESPN Zone? I don't think so.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.