Quotes About Activism

We have much to learn from women like Ruby McKnight Williams, who studied the California color line and devised ways to resist it, only to see it materialize somewhere else in another form.

It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running around kissing each other to get the attention of boys and videocameras.

black Catholic theology must be at once critically political and deeply mystical.

St. Martin Luther King, Jr." This sparked a conflict with Cardinal John Cody, cardinal archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

the People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos's effort to steal a "snap" presidential election;

And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

I'm thinking about public interest law." "What the hell is that?" "It's when you work for the good of society without making a lot of money.

A fascist is a student who, seeing the representatives of a chemical industry recruiting on campus, cries, Let's chase the bastard off! We have the right to free speech but he doesn't!

Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South. But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

But in her first days with us, Susie was a bear on the rape issue—and on a lot of other issues, too.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to "protect the environment."

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

The world doesn't need more people to save the world, what it really needs is more people to kick asses of those who pollute.