Quotes About Activism

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.

Automobile companies are always allergic to any kind of environmental movement.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

I'm just all for equal rights and stuff like that, but I'm not like one of those 'Yay empowerment' type of people.

I'm very passionate about equal rights.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

In 1965, I marched for equality.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

anyone who says'by any means necessary' is a violent statement is violent themselves, because it is a comprehensive statement... It could be political, social, religious.

I'm not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I'm meant to fight against them. I can't hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

When I announced my party, Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) on 25 April 1996, I had lost all fear of dying.

Iqbal not only conceived of a self-governing Muslim state, his passionate voice awakened and activated Indian Muslims, motivating them not only to strive to free themselves from the bondage of imperialism and colonialism, but also to challenge other forms of totalitarian control. Believing fervently in human equality and the right of human beings to dignity, justice and freedom, Iqbal empowered the dis-empowered to stand up and be counted.

There is no place for rape in a society filled with women who love our cunts. Women can be kicked when we are down, but no one is stupid or strong enough to kick us when we are standing up, all, together.

when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.