Quotes About Activism

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.