Quotes About Activism

Empathy is not enough, there must be advocacy. - Jeanne Jones in MIXED: Exploring What It Means To Be Blended In America

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.