Quotes About Activism

If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available to them, to harass civil rights activists, reds, poor people's organizations, unionists, & peaceniks? Most certainly!

Feminist Gloria Steinem has called research on sex differences "anti-American." She says, "It is what is keeping us down." According to Gloria Allred, such research simply should not be done. "This is harmful and dangerous to our daughters' lives, to our mothers' lives, and I am very angry about it." Feminist critics have a term for neurologists who study sex differences: "neurosexists.

We didn't start the sexual revolution but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!

Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.

Give me smart, young, and angry and I'll move the world.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. (Would you like fries with that? Shut up and stop killing whales! Thank you. Drive through, please.)

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite—and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Now

Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When

Good God!" exclaimed Raoul. "How much more will the people need to wake them up?

The Fascist groups were becoming more and more active, and were resorting to gangsterism, as in all the countries bordering on Italy and Germany. They were provided with funds not only from French capitalist sources, but also from abroad.

The larger themes of the new signature progressivism were identity politics, radical environmentalism, and redistributionism.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

the phantom of social justice tormented him.

Do you permit it? Enjolras

Le plus excellent symbole du peuple, c'est le pavé. On marche dessus jusqu'à ce qu'il vous tombe sur la tête.

Les amis de l'abc... a group which barely missed becoming historic

Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life. That's why women like Gloria Steinem are burning their bras and marching on Washington.

You're always talking about my future. Your big dreams for me. College. How do you think I'm going to get there, Mom? By picking cotton in the fall and starving in the winter? By living on the dole?" Loreda moved forward. "Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.

You understand. I know you do. Your people are starving, dying. Thousands are homeless. They can't make enough money picking to survive. Help me convince them to strike for better wages. They'll listen to you.