Quotes About Activism

I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'