Quotes About Activism

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.

Intersectional organizing is the new agenda. And if we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose together. If we win, we're gonna win together.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments.

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.

Beyonce is very outspoken on feminist issues. So I think that's good. That could be brought to the forefront more.