Quotes About Activism

Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

Wonder Woman didn't begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a snowbank.

Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge?

Huey Newton laid down his life for us," Stokely Carmichael had said the same night. But of course Huey Newton had not yet laid down his life at all, was just here in the Alameda County Jail waiting to be tried

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal do not beg do not grovel. Take courage join hands stand beside us fight with us.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain you may be doing some good work.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Im done being silent, the left cannot win.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

El feminismo es una aventura colectiva, para las mujeres pero también para los hombres y para todos los demás. Una revolución que ya ha comenzado. Una visión del mundo, una opción. No se trata de oponer las pequeñas ventajas de las mujeres a los pequeños derechos adquiridos de los hombres, sino de dinamitarlo todo.

Le féminisme est une aventure collective, pour les femmes, pour les hommes, et pour les autres. Un révolution, bien en marche. Une vision du monde, un choix. Il ne s'agit pas d'opposer les petits avantages des femmes aux petits acquis des hommes mais bien de tout foutre en l'air.

?ovek nikada ne može biti dovoljno radikalan.Odnosno, ?ovek mora biti radikalan koliko i sama stvarnost.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois

I don't have to give [Donald Trump] a chance.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.