Quotes About Activism

As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all.

Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights, the peace movement, the environmental movement, feminism. They're big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please, let's stop fighting, and get out our water cans.

The seeds of marriage equality... were planted on MTV.

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

I say peace begins on your plate.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

Its been instilled in me since I was young that I have to use my platform to change the world. Thats something thats part of my DNA. I think also that just being born as an Aboriginal woman, my life is politicised, so thats something Ive dealt with every day of my life.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?

I didn't realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an 'aha' moment for me.

My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an issue that they care about and their own authentic way of expressing and sharing their message and working for change. When you speak authentically about something that matters to you, your voice has even more power.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?

If you're passionate about it, speak up about it. Just show up, do your part, and make your voice heard, because at the end of the day, all we have is our voice and our platforms and our character.

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.