Quotes About Activism

As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

As someone who's visible, I feel it's part of my responsibility to have a voice for trans people because the fight is not necessarily on television. The fight is every day.

It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - "our place.

When Thoreau was arrested for protesting an injustice, Ralph Waldo Emerson had visited him in prison and said, "Henry, what are you doing in there?" And Thoreau had replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out there?

It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.

when the proletariat, failing to see the justice of this bourgeois economy, begins to murmur, the policeman's club is called into active service.

a "strike," which means a resistance on the part of the oppressed toward the oppressor—a protest, as it were

are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can't vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? —REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

Yeah, things are better for blacks and women and gays, but it was the blacks and women and gays that did it, not fuck-ups like this bunch. Whites and straights came along to give help, all right, after the blacks said 'enough' and got their heads busted, and it's the same for the gays and the women. The whites and straights, they control things, and they could have changed it anytime.

Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

Here's a definition of Wokeism : There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of being offended.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change

When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Today on MLK DAY, please remember those who marched when it was illegal to march, participated in sit-ins in restaurants like the ones you sit in, where they could not sit; fought for the right to an equal education that many of the youth don't appreciate; and died for the right to vote that many these days don't cast. Don't let their sacrifice go without you making a change today.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.