Quotes About Activism

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she'd have to sign stuff for me.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

If the only time you bang the drum is when it's time to get someone elected, and you don't get involved in a mass movement, then you're working against real and substantive change.

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.

The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

The activists or protesters who have many backers are cheaters.

Erkekleri bertaraf edin, kad?nlar ÅŸekle girecektir. Kad?nlar düzeltilebilir; erkeklerse düzeltilemez, ancak davran??lar? düzeltilebilir. SCUM k?çlar?ndan dürtünce hale yola girerler.

If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

ÅŸiddet" "bask?"n?n kar??s?nda ortaya ç?kt???nda, kurumsallaÅŸm?? ÅŸiddetin bir reddidir. Böyle eylemler kahramanl?kt?r... ti-grace atkinson