Quotes About Activism

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane.

The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already.

I decline to go fox hunting.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.