Quotes About Activism

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

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

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

History belongs to the intercessors

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.