Quotes About Activism

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

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Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

Seventy-seven percent of the people that have given money to Bernie Sanders are people that have given less than 200 bucks. That's a lot of people, folks. That's a lot of enthusiasm.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?