Quotes About Activism

I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.

Thomas Paine

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women's silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.

We have no need of a feminized apparatus to bureaucratically manage women's lives or to issue sporadic statements about women's lives by smooth-talking functionaries. What we need are women who will fight because they know that without a fight the old order will not be destroyed and no new order will be built. We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitively destroy and replace it.

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when--especially when--it ain't convenient.

The girl threw up a Black Power fist and bounced.

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.

A small number of people can make a lot of noise.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

My husband and I eventually want to start a nonprofit and call it the Westboro Foundation. It was his idea, and I love it. I would love for Westboro to come to mean something besides 'God hates gays.'

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North Korea.