Quotes About Activism

There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one's own virtue rather than the realization of results.

Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth—and in our minds, where it all begins and ends.

YesAllWomen because I can't tweet about feminism without getting threats and perverted replies. Speaking out shouldn't scare me. • #YesAllWomen because I've seen more men angry at the hashtag rather than angry at the things happening to women. • #YesAllWomen because if you're too nice to them you're "leading them on" & if you're too rude you risk violence. Either way you're a bitch.

A volunteer police force tries to keep women in their place or put them back in it. The online world is full of mostly anonymous rape and death threats for women who stick out—who, for instance, participate in online gaming or speak up on controversial issues, or even for the woman who recently campaigned to put women's images on British banknotes

my admiration for this fearlessly unapologetic new generation of feminists and human rights activists is vast.

Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making

There are lovely and wonderful men out there, and one of the things that's encouraging in this round of the war against women is how many men I've seen who get it, who think it's their issue too, who stand up for us and with us in everyday life, online and in the marches from New Delhi to San Francisco this winter.

Rebecca Solnit

A woman is still beaten every nine seconds in this country, but thanks to the heroic feminist campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, she now has access to legal remedies that occasionally work, occasionally protect her, and—even more occasionally—send her abuser to jail.

By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides, even those between generations.

Many of us today owe the few attractive and redeeming features of our existence to the sixties, and Che Guevara personifies that era ... better than anyone (Castaneda 1997:410).

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

Up on the Magdalen Islands, eight crew members from the Sea Shepherd sprayed more than a thousand seal pups with a harmless but permanent red dye. This dye was designed to ruin their pelts and save the pups from hunters. The activists were arrested and, in pitch-perfect Orwellian double-speak, charged with violating the Seal Protection Act.

An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.

They had to take a page from ACT UP, the Weather Underground, the United Freedom Front, and shake these corrupt institutions to their very foundations.

Komünistler, her yerde bugünkü toplumsal ve siyasal düzene kar?? her devrimci hareketi desteklerler.

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.