Quotes About Activism

There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views.

Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia.

Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function.

We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

In Kaifi's poetry and in his work as a social activist, every setback only strengthened his resolve to fight back with renewed vigor and strength.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

The movie Gul Makai' will showcase the earlier life of Malala and how she was forced and stopped from going to school. It's a proud story of a girl fighting for her own and other girl child rights to education in her village in Swat Valley. I am glad I was chosen to play this role in Gul Makai.'

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of troops to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 enabled Movement Conservatives to resurrect old white fears that government activism was simply a way to funnel white tax dollars to African-Americans.

There's this artistic drive or something in me that impels me to sympathize with villains, but it's maybe not a great impulse as someone who wants to do activism as well.

She is absolutely inspiring. Malala is a vindication of our struggle.

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how free you are; If we can be violated, so can you.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence and blatant violation of human rights.

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.