Quotes About Activism

The fact is, women's rights are human rights. We must fight for everyone to have access to a level playing field.

Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her "little sister" and would have had potential if he'd remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignation.

Find the joy where you can, and maintain the rage where it's needed.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.

When dealing with music, the personal is the political, and always has been.

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

I'm speaking out against social media bias.

More people are speaking out about... well, everything. And that kind of gave us the confidence to feel like we could speak out a bit more about things.

We'd better not speak against misogyny if, in the same breath, we're not also speaking against transphobia and homophobia and racism and classism and poverty. This is one fight. It always has been.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

Black Trans Lives Matter, to me, is really different. I think it speaks most directly to the marginalization and disenfranchisement of trans people within the black community.

Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.