Quotes About Activism

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I don't think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.