Quotes About Activism

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.

If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

Andy and I decided to get married in August of 2014, and just 4 days after we married, he passed away. For me, I carry my relationship with Andy with me in my LGBT advocacy work.

There's never been such a devastating incident as what had happened in America with George Floyd passing away. That's one of the biggest things that I've seen in the world, but things have happened in the past and after a month or two it's just business as normal.

With the passing away of Mr Tarkunde, India has lost the father of the Civil Liberties movement in the country.

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.

I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

Personal purity isn't really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

I can't be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.

It had linked its fate to the activism of a political party that was far from activist, that largely took labor's support for granted; there seemed little real pressure on the Democrats to deliver for labor when it knew, everyone knew, that labor had nowhere else to go.