Quotes About Activism

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

My ultimate goal is a statewide non-discrimination law with broad protections, and I will keep striving for it.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

In December 2014, during the final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming We'll Be Back sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful pro-democracy protesters for nearly three months.

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally un-American.

You know obviously my stand on racism is that it's unacceptable and that we should always stand up to it.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m in compensation. But, unbelievably, that chemical remains in our drinking water.

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

I just believe that we should never stop fighting on behalf of the unborn and that's what we're going to do.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.