Quotes About Activism

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

The greatest contribution you can make to this world is empowering the people who cannot speak for themselves.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively

Education is the most effective tool of freedom fighters.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Hace falta pasión y pasión gritada a o pensada a los gritos o escrita a gritos. Hay qué gritarle al oído a la gente, ya que su aparente sordera es una especie de autodefensa de cobarde y malsana autodefensa. Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad ese día, se convertirá en algo útil.

Hay que gritarle en el oído a la gente, ya que su aparente sordera es una especie de autodefensa, de cobarde y malsana autodefensa. Hay que lograr que se despierte en los demás la vergüenza de sí mismos, que se sustituya en ellos la autodefensa por el autoasco. El día en que el uruguayo sienta asco de su propia pasividad, ese día se convertirá en algo útil.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.

The next day, Paris woke up to find its streets plastered with posters calling for a general strike.