Quotes About Activism

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

There were a lot of pretty women in cinema around Audrey Hepburn's time, but she stood out because she had a very interesting personality - which went beyond her looks. She did so much for women, for animal rights, for children's education - it's always the personality that comes through and makes one seem beautiful.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.