Quotes About Activism

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.

Anyone who cooperates with BDS is operating against Israel and it is a form of antisemitism.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself, then I'm not effecting any change in my time here on Earth.

The pen is mightier than the paving-stone

The one silver lining of our sad political reality in 2018 is that we're learning to rely less on the powers that be and more on ourselves to make change.

Preguntaréis por qué su poesía no nos habla del sueño, de las hojas, de los grandes volcanes de su país natal? Venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles, venid a ver la sangre por las calles!

Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.

La obstinación de fray De las Casas para liberar a los indígenas de la cruel dominación de los europeos lo llevó a propugnar su reemplazo por esclavos traídos de África, como si estos no fueran seres humanos, lo que fomentará el tráfico negrero al darle sustento ideológico y religioso.

He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out

There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail, backsliding begins. Or totalitarianism.

I do not think I was a hothead—not then and not now. I thought I was right. I had read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bible. Segregation seemed evil from the time I was a boy. Slavery is an abomination on the American soul, ineradicable stain on our body politic. But Penn Center lit a fire that has never gone out, and the election of President Barack Obama was one of the happiest days of my life.

had the heart of a socialist and the soul of a missionary

Being a sex radical means being defiant as well as deviant.

She had changed into shorts and a T-shirt that read A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE—AND THE SENATE.

Nobody's out to save the world, because nobody gives a damn about the world, that was just a bunch of goofy kids talking.

Energy transitions are not new. They have been going on for a long time and unfold over time. Previous energy transitions have primarily been driven by technology, economics, environmental considerations, and convenience and ease. The current one has politics, policy, and activism more mixed in.

The focus in the pages of this book is on how the momentum of climate policies—powered by research and observation, by climate models, and by political mobilization and regulatory power, social activism, financial institutions, and deepening anxiety—will transform the energy system. "Net zero carbon" will be one of the great challenges of the decades ahead, not just politically but also in how people live their lives and in the costs of achieving it.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.