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Quotes About Activism

Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.
~ Anne Hathaway
I'm there to fight the good fight. To defend the people who need it and protect people from being discriminated against, or being abused by bad laws. You always have to fight the good fight
~ Danielle Steel
Next to the photo was a frown button that said "We denounce the Central Guatemalan Security Forces." Mae hesitated briefly, knowing the gravity of what she was about to do—to come out against these rapists and murderers—but she needed to make a stand. She pushed the button.
~ Dave Eggers
But now I know that I can help; I can make a difference, too. I'll stand with you; I'll shout with you, And the rest can't say, "I never knew.
~ Dave Pelzer
If one still needs a reason to justify being a militant feminist, then head over to the Middle East. That's where you'll find real misogyny, which is propped up by a proper patriarchy. Happy travels!
~ Dave Rubin
exactly why the media is so distrusted: An activist writes an arguably libelous article. Then one of the subjects of the article invites the author to discuss said article. The author then declines and is lauded by his own community as a righteous defender of truth.
~ Dave Rubin
antiwar pacifists.
~ David Baldacci
And if you aren't a dues paying member of a dozen NGOs, each fighting for a future you believe in, then take another look at the hypocrite in the mirror. That method is a lazy person's cheap route to bragging rights: "I'm at least doing something." Here's how.
~ David Brin
We can't save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
~ David Brin
OSF was also the first major foundation to get behind same-sex marriage. From 2000 to 2005, a pivotal period in the marriage equality fight, OSF invested millions in LGBT rights organizations. This early money, some of which went to back state-level fights, like a 2005 legal challenge in Iowa, was arguably more important than the bigger money that came in from other funders later on. OSF grants also went to frontline activist groups fighting for immigrants and, later, to Black Lives Matter.
~ David Callahan
My own plan for the coming fourteen months is to knock on doors and stuff envelopes. Maybe even to wear a button. To try to accrete with others into a demographically significant mass. To try extra hard to exercise patience, politeness, and imagination on those with whom I disagree. Also to floss more.
~ David Foster Wallace
I would give almost anything I own to be alive when that day comes, as it surely will, when Harry Byrd sees negro men and women sitting not at the back of the bus but riding free and equal through all the streets of Virginia. For that I would willingly be called that hateful epithet "nigger lover," which I am sure I am called already in private by many
~ William Styron
Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
Guía breve, pero útil, de desobediencia civil Manifestaciones y Marchas. El aspecto clave de una manifestación es que tiene que ser visible. De ahí el término <>. Si una persona se manifiesta con carácter privado en su domicilio, no constituye técnicamente una manifestación, sino meramente <> o <>
~ Woody Allen
This machine kills fascists.
~ Woody Guthrie
Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since.
~ Woody Guthrie
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
~ Christopher Hitchens
However, research with activists in the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s and of those who sheltered Holocaust survivors during World War II confirm that compassion, empathy, and social responsibility were core family values that motivated their actions. Once exercised in action, values of social responsibility and service to others may become integral to identity.
~ Christopher Peterson
Menghukum Sukarno berarti menghukum seluruh pergerakan.
~ Cindy Adams
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
~ Cindy Sheehan
Oh, oh, look out: MySpace is going to put together a march. On the streets! With big banners! Saying, STOP, BAD GOVERNMENT! STOP DOING THAT BAD, BAD THING! Hold me, Mother! We must, as a governing body, stop doing immoral things immediately, or bisexual college girls with nose rings might wave colorful signs at us! Or
~ Cintra Wilson
Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)
~ Unknown
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.
~ Clara Zetkin
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
~ Clare Boothe Luce