Quotes About Activism

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Never be neutral, always remain vigilant, in allowing your political consciousness to spread through your life.

But of one thing I was certain. I couldn't undo four hundred years of social injustice with a pretty dress and a soft voice.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

A little man in a threadbare coat spoke up for the poor as if he really knew what he was talking about. The women with the flowers threw them down for him. "That's Robert Speer," one said. "Something like that. He's our man.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

Feminists are those who dare to break the conspiracy of silence about the oppressive, unequal man-woman relationship and who want to change it.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.