Quotes About Activism

The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot