Quotes About Activism

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Their means may be strategically effective as in the work of the Black Panthers in Chicago, with Fred Hampton's efforts there before he was assassinated by police. Their means may be, in other contexts, less effective than were the Black Panthers and other groups. In either case, though, they are termed "social dynamite" because they are, or can be perceived as, a major threat to the functioning of the economic and political order.

Children walking out on strike from textile mills in New Jersey in the 1840s, shoemakers doing the same in New England, the Black Panthers and other dissidents of color challenging white supremacist exploitation in the 1960s and 1970s—for all their differences, these share in being viewed and treated as "social dynamite.

Such groups are often forced to live on the edge of social legality and, even when engaged in fully legal behavior, they are presented and hunted as criminals. Such has been the fate of groups like the Young Lords, and, again, the Black Panther Party, as well as "gangs" in the poor communities of Los Angeles and Chicago, for example, whose offenses were often mixed with programs aiming at social renewal and liberation.

Violated peoples do not forget. They dream alternatives and organize against overwhelming power. In the U.S., organized and creative resistance has an equally long history. In

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

Critique of the 1 percent's domination predates, it should be recalled, the "Occupy" movement's popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked often on the notion of the 1 percent in his early speeches of the 1950s: "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes.

I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce CO2 emissions?

The history of the anti-nuclear movement is therefore not lit by sunshine, but shrouded in coal smoke.

Let's be clear about the real-world impact of this activism however. Aubergine farmers in both India and the Philippines have sprayed millions of pounds of additional insecticides thanks to the activities of Greenpeace, Vandana Shiva and other anti-GMO campaigners and groups in denying them the opportunity to grow Bt brinjal.

Indeed, social activism, progressive groupthink, Democratic Party partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news, the staging of pseudo-events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old-fashioned, objective fact gathering and news reporting.

Paradoxically, there is no age group more enthusiastically reliable and committed by political deed to an activist if not fervent governing elite than the rising generation, and no age group more jeopardized by it.

wrote what is considered by radical activists a seminal essay in the far-left Nation, entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," focused on race and poverty. They bluntly stated their intention: "It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations,

Social movements thrive on conflict," wrote Piven and Cloward.

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women chained in place with bike locks, leading their arresting officers in a round of "Amazing Grace." "This is the manufactured division that keeps us separated," Ethan told me. "And separation is the source of how we're in this position." What if he could re-create the joy and song and theater of the protesters but without a demonstration?

Mark thomas: 'I am morally opposed to these weapons!' Columbian trade union activist: 'So I am but I find it very practical on occasion!

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger.

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes