Quotes About Activism

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Patricia: What they did was stupid and cruel and why I am going to write the president of the United States telling him that if there is any place in this country where nuclear bomb testing should be allowed, it's Corpus Christi, Texas.

Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from a Georgia prison, after serving four years of hard labor for speaking out against the mistreatment of Cherokee Indians.

Bruce Springsteen, a long-time gay rights activist, has cancelled his North Carolina concert. He says the NC law #HB2 to prevent men from being able to use women's restrooms and locker rooms is going "backwards instead of forwards." Well, to be honest,

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Protest is good; involvement is better; doing both is the best.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.