Quotes About Activism

Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.

Make new friends and march with them. For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If

Practice corporeal politics.

Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest

Stand out: someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.

Booble, the world must know of your ways. I will fight for your survival. One day people will understand and stop destroying your homes and killing your kind. I'll return next year, and protect you, Booble.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.