Quotes About Activism

I became a vegetarian at age 13 because I was into animal issues and felt like it was kinder not to eat animals.

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

I actually believe that this Trump phenomenon, which has affected many of us, is going to accelerate the use of art for philanthropy, because people are realizing that art is a vehicle for showing opposition - just look at the signs in the women's marches.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

I want to be the one to make a change, like when my father started his music. It's about the message. Coffee is a vehicle to create change.

The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

I used protest music as a vehicle.

'V for Vendetta' is an amazing movie, and it had an obvious message, but it was done so perfectly. I got out of the movie, and I wanted to march so hard. I wanted to be an activist.

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

The very act of protest is dangerous in Venezuela.

We will stay in the streets until we have freedom for Venezuela.

I've met many lesbian, gay and trans activists who've told me what they face, sometimes even within the school gates: hate crime, fear of discrimination, physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence and homelessness.

Ichioka, Gee, Ichioka's brother Victor, Vicci Wong, Floyd Huen, and Richard Aoki—dubbed themselves the "Asian-American Political Alliance," coining "Asian-American" in emulation of their Afro-American fellows

1 say to the leaders of this great country, why not allow your people the same privileges we in the West take for granted? You can start by releasing Anatoly Babakov and allowing his book to be published. That is, if you have nothing to fear from the torch of freedom. 1 will not rest until 1 can buy a copy of Uncle Joe at Hatchards on Piccadilly, Doubleday on Fifth Avenue, Dymocks in Sydney, and George's bookshop in Park Street, Bristol.

Act Different, Think Different, Make a Difference "Care about something enough to do something about it." —Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Inc.

It had to do with the way the mail wasn't delivered on time, and how potholes never got fixed, or the thievery at City Hall, or the race riots, or the 801 fires set around the city on Devil's night. The Lisbon girls became a symbol of what was wrong with the country, the pain it inflicted on even its most innocent citizens, and in order to make things better a parents' group donated a bench in the girls' memory to our school.

For Ginsburg, the #MeToo movement is a vindication of the vision of feminism that she championed in the 1970s: a rejection of the traditional idea that women and men occupy separate spheres in which women are naturally passive and men aggressive; an attack on laws treating men and women differently, especially those designed to protect "the weaker sex"; and an insistence that special benefits for women be extended to men.

If it's comfortable it's not feminist - unless of course we're talking about shoes.

Intolerable wrongs we accept now as a matter of course would have provoked marches in the streets and calls for new elections only a few years ago.

fellow students taught her about fighting for justice and making her voice heard, and more worldly friends invited her to expand her consciousness in ways that she never would have imagined back in Brown Deer