Quotes About Activism

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven.

Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood producer polluting our culture? The politician threatening my moral principles? The drug lord ruling my inner city? If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.

From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven. The Jesus I Never Knew (244 – 45)

I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin

The internet enables and organizes hate very effectively; it lets people believe they're righteous warriors for justice when in reality they're just clicking keys.

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.