Quotes About Activism

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.

To the extent that Bernie Sanders was about building a movement of people where challenging things that up until then were unchallengeable, then absolutely we want to be seen in that mould.

I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become candidates.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

A hashtag is not a movement.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.