Quotes About Activism

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.