Quotes About Activism

Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

we are just normal people, concerned about animals, the environment, or our health.

This revised edition is also for all of you who have changed your lives in order to bring Animal Liberation closer. You have made it possible to believe that the power of ethical reasoning can prevail over the self-interest of our species.

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas.

the misery and pain inflicted on animals that I described in the original 1975 edition of this book has not ceased.

Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.

The history of the early abolitionist movement," writes historian Arthur Zilversmit, "is essentially the record of Quaker antislavery activities.

My responsibility as a "revolutionary" was to hurt the United States.

The next two essays, "My Vietnam Lessons" and "Semper Fidel," belong to this genre, and are attempts I made to confront our radical cohort with the harsh realities of what we had actually done. Vietnam was the defining issue of our generation but the events that unfolded proved that those of us who were active in the anti-war movement had been wrong on every critical point, and that our actions had tragic consequences for the people we claimed to be defending.

David Horowitz

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.

activists are so determined to make the unorthodox normal and vice versa that they manufactured a new term, "cisgender," for a person without gender hang-ups—that is, for a person "whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.

An Evangelical who thinks the world is ending is called a religious fanatic; a liberal who thinks so is called an environmentalist."—Dennis Prager * Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind.

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 

From the summer of 1909 to the end of 1911, New York waist makers - young immigrants, mostly women - achieved something profound. They were a catalyst for the forces of change: the drive for women's rights (and other civil rights), the rise of unions, and the use of activist government to address social problems.

We have but one weapon unimpaired and that is the weapon of speech, and not to use it . . . is treason to the oppressed.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

If you read a newspaper on any given day, you will see that most of the gains we are making as a society are still being done by activist citizens' organizations.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

To believe in blackness solely as a negative binary in a prejudicial racialized structure, and to further believe that this binary is and will forever be the essential, eternal, and primary organizing category of human life, is a pessimist's right but an activist's indulgence. Meanwhile, there is work to be done (xxxiv).

The Noted Activist