Quotes About Activism

Lahore Conspiracy Case, as it was called, contains no Muslim name and only one Sikh name, that of Bhagat Singh.

Ambedkar said he had been 'surprised, immensely surprised' to find 'so much in common' between Gandhi and himself. 'If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes', Ambedkar said to Gandhi, 'you would become our hero'.

one who breaks an unjust law, must do it openly and lovingly

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Gandhi's fast unto death to keep the Depressed Classes in the Hindu fold was to begin at 12 noon on 20 September 1932.

Ramachandra Guha

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Sadly, the Religious Right was never about the advancement of biblical values. The modern, politically conservative evangelical activism we see today is a movement rooted in the perpetuation of racial segregation, and its affiliation with the hard-right fringes of the conservative movement beginning in the late 1970s produced a mutant form of evangelicalism inconsistent with the best traditions of evangelicalism itself.

It was a truism to people active in the gay movement that the greatest impediments to homosexuals' progress often were not heterosexual bigots but closeted homosexuals.

Guerrilla war is a total war. This is the path on which the Situationist International is set: calculated harassment on every front—cultural, political, economic, and social. The battlefield is everyday life, which guarantees the unity of the struggle.

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

I loved campaigning for Obama.

I loved campaigning.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

The Time's Up movement extends to every college campus and, of course, athletics.

I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

If there's a cause you believe in, go out there, get active, and do it.

My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.