Quotes About Activism

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.