Quotes About Activism

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.