Quotes About Activism

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

Being an activist is not easy.

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

Literature births activists.

I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

I've always wanted to be an advocate.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example - even if I disagreed with some of their choices.

The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.

To be black is to be a dissident.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end in the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change. —TIMOTHY SNYDER, On Tyranny

Armed resistance is apt to be a tragic last resort in the life of the disinherited. Armed resistance has an appeal because it provides a form of expression, of activity, that releases tension and frees the oppressed from a disintegrating sense of complete impotency and helplessness.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Huey coined the term "revolutionary suicide" to describe this phenomenon.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.