Quotes About Activism

They have rights who dare defend them.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

Right on, brother hippies, the [??n!$] is mightier than the sword!

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

Let's go!' Peter yelled and ran off, his voice echoing through the mall. 'Last one to strike out at our imperialist oppressors is a Trotskyite stooge!' Some people stay in college way too long.

Life is the great civil rights issue of our day

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The two pillars of feminism are narcissism and entitlement.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

We've been doing work outside of the anthem since the beginning. Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues. The anthem protests or demonstrations just brought eyes and attention to it.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent.

I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.