Quotes About Activism

Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.

I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

Those who spend a significant amount of their time delivering leaflets and knocking on doors for the party are very often the most loyal supporters anyone could ask for.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.'

I see that I can do good, I can help free political prisoners, I can raise questions that are silenced on the national level, I can talk about Navalny and others on national television channels, and show that we have 20-30 million supporters around the country.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

I'm not supporting any companies that cause harm to animals.

I understand that we want to be in the middle of protests with our bodies and we want people to know that we're there supporting Black Lives Matter, which I'm 100 percent about. And I'm 100 percent about going to the bubble and doing it on national television where everybody sees it.

I'm supportive of social justice.

I'm not a person that just supports an issue; I go out and work for it.

There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.

Let's remember, a protest isn't supposed to appease everybody.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.