Quotes About Activism

Praxis is not a privilege of the Left. It is what the Right does too.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."27

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

As a Jew who had grown up in Germany, Einstein was acutely sensitive to such discrimination. "The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me," he wrote in an essay called "The Negro Question" for Pageant magazine. "I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.

Never an insider, Murray used her outsider status to make herself a thorn in the side of segregation and political oppression.

Techno-anarcho-terrorism

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.

We have nothing to lose, for they are the capitalists. Black people could not hope to, nor do they want to, dominate the whites, but large sections of the black youth realise that they cannot shrink from fighting to demonstrate the hard way that a 10 per cent minority of 22 million cannot be treated as though they do not exist.

Black people must now take the offensive - if it is anyone who should suffer embarrassment, it is the whites. Did black people roast six million Jews? Who exterminated millions of indigenous inhabitants in the Americas and Australia? Who enslaved countless millions of Africans? The white capitalist cannibal has always fed on the world's black peoples. White capitalist imperialist society is profoundly and unmistakably racist.

May 4, 1970—the same day as the horror show at Kent State University in Ohio, where four students were killed

Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.

Two percent who care deeply about something are a more potent political force than the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren't motivated enough to do anything about it.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

A lifted world lifts women up," the Socalist explained. You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," the Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: Your work is all the same; Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart- Just get into the game!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan

Whoever pretends that a technician, an architect, a doctor, an engineer, or any type of scientist should merely work with the in­struments in his own specific field while his people starve to death or fall in battle, has in fact taken the side of the enemy. He is not apolitical, he is political-but in opposition to movements for lib­eration.

Do not think one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

IMAGINE WHIRLED PEAS

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.

If you camp out at the store for a TV, you are a good consumer. If you camp out for social justice, you're a dirty hippie and will be pepper-sprayed.

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"Women's rights will not go back to the Dark Side!" —Ruth Vader Ginsburg

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.