Quotes About Activism

The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

Every movement ignores disabled people. So, during MeToo no one was talking about the experience of disabled women; during BLM the notion of black disabled people was just ignored and so in terms of comparison we need to have this movement for disabled people.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

it was one of those revolutionary gestures that you laugh about years later, when you're remembering the good old days when you were political.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

Justice is what Love looks like in public.

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America—even though the white press attempted to do so.

We are witnessing a rebellion. It's beautiful to see the qty of protests and the scope and breadth of all colors, all genders, all sexual orientations, all ethnicities and all religious identities in the USA.

They're kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn't join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.

Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better.

When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to put in the envelopes. Today, we get those envelopes and stamps and address books for free. This is so fantastically, hugely different and weird that we haven't even begun to feel the first tendrils of it.

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

Remember, it's not just 'to each according to her need,' it's 'from each according to her ability.' I know how to find factories that are perfect for direct action. I know how to get into them. I know how to pwnify their machines. I know how to throw a hell of a party. I have all this unearned, undeserved privilege. Apart from killing myself as an enemy of the human species, can you think of anything better for me to do with it?

Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

Was John Brown simply an episode, or was he an eternal truth? And if a truth, how speaks that truth today?

John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay for liberty is its cost to-day.