Quotes About Activism

The common enemy is the white man.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Well, at least I'm not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, 'stay-at-home-mom'-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.