Quotes About Activism

The previous holders of these jobs not only dealt with fewer challengers and competitors, but they also had fewer constraints—in the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny—on using the power they had.

El primer y más importante motor de la protesta fue la realidad demográfica de los jóvenes en países como Túnez, Egipto y Siria, personas más sanas y mejor preparadas que nunca, pero sin trabajo y profundamente frustradas.

en todo el mundo es fácil observar un renovado activismo político del poder judicial.

They'd stopped being shrewd worshippers begging for interviews and had become irritating stones in the revolution's shoes.

to eradicate the vetocracy that is paralyzing the system, "political reform must first and foremost be driven by popular, grassroots mobilization.

Los grupos de interés que tienen un solo objetivo (los ecologistas, los antiinmigrantes, etcétera) ya no solo tratan de influir sobre las decisiones de quienes han llegado a gobernar por la vía de los votos sino que, con mucha frecuencia, ellos mismos tratan de obtener esos votos y ser elegidos para cargos de influencia.

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

Salvation is the insurrectionary and revolutionary process of challenging the status quo and demanding equality and inclusion.

The women address the young men in these terms, now you understand that we have been fighting as much for you as for ourselves.

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go!

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build a house Whatever we stand against We will stand feeding and seeding Wherever I walk I will make

As the old saying goes, negroes are nonviolent with those who are violent toward them and violent toward those who are nonviolent toward them. Selfish

The motto of the Labour Party is "bread and roses", but I always wonder if we are really fighting for daily bread or for the freedom of citizens. Eternal liberty over filling only your stomach.

Busing, affirmative action, and abortion are but the three most glaring areas in which the justices have made law from the bench, with no constitutional license to do so.