Quotes About Activism

It just broke her heart to hear the sobs of those women who dug around in the rubble, dripping wet from the police water cannons, asking for news of their loved ones everywhere, knocking again and again on metal doors that never opened, trampled by blasts of water in front of the Ministry of Justice, chaining themselves to lampposts with torn stockings, disheveled, clutching their chests so the filthy water wouldn't tear away the photograph they wore over their hearts.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

Art needs to stand for something.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.