Quotes About Activism

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

Of course I'm a feminist…if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.