Quotes About Activism

Anything with Soros, I lay low. People kind of just roll their eyes when you bring him up.

I have been left-wing always, from childhood.

I was a leftist for a long time.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.

I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.

I believed that one had to stop the machinery of war.

I want to start the trans mafia one day.

'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world.

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

Malcolm X was a man among men.

The most common criticism I get is that I'm being manipulated and you shouldn't use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can't think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I'm also allowed to have a say - why shouldn't I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people's minds?

With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.

I remember watching the first Million Man March as a kid, and I always knew that if I got a chance to go to one, I would go.

The Women's March moved me.

Things like the Women's March have been just so encouraging, and I'd like to see that continue.

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

It defies reason to believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. would march arm in arm with Wall Street hedge fund managers and members of ALEC to lead a struggle for the privatization of public education, the crippling of unions, and the establishment of for-profit schools.

Dear Momma?Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word nigger again, remember they are advertising my book.

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it

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