Quotes About Activism

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.