Quotes About Activism

A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Gangsta to me is the Black Panther Party.

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Rosa Parks is rock and roll.

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

I thank those activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and others. They risked - and sometimes lost - their lives in the name of freedom and equality.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.