Quotes About Activism

A feminist who had always been supported by men—first my father and now the Noted Activist—and who, though she continually harangued me about the "nobility of labor," had never, as far as I knew, actually been gainfully employed.

It's a delusional painter who finishes a canvas at two o'clock and expects radical societal transformation by four. Even when artists write manifestos, they are (hopefully) aware that their exigent tone is, finally, borrowed, only echoing in mimicking the urgency of the guerrilla's demands, or the activist's protest, rather than truly enacting. The people sometimes demand change.

Still, in the top left-hand corner, a huge button bought in New York's Union Square in the mid eighties: I myself have never been able to figure out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

Since I became accidentally famous, it did give me access and, through that access, power that I couldn't just walk away from.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

There is nothing that says you can't be active and love your community and fight for your community and still do your job.

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that.

I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.

I've always felt that activism and art go hand in hand.

Activism is in my DNA.

I was not an activist.

I'm an activist.

I've been a female activist since the time I was 13 years old.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

My mum was an anti-racist activist in the 70s and 80s.