Quotes About Activism

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Woman's cause is one and universal.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

There is a difference between a consumer - who passively receives the information that they are spoon fed - and a citizen - who engages with society, asks questions, does research, and works towards making a difference in their neighborhood, city, and country.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.

Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.