Quotes About Activism

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Your voice can change the world.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard