Quotes About Activism

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I think we can continue to do as much protesting as we want. Systemic racism needs to be changed from within.

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.

Ik erken geen werkelijkheid die vooral voordeel biedt aan net die helft van de mensheid waartoe ik niet behoor. Die houding kan ik iedereen aanbevelen. Voor mij is het niet nodig, de werkelijkheid te begrijpen of te bezweren. Het is nodig, er korte metten mee te maken. Al het andere is capitulatie – collaboratie zelfs.

So if you're anti-war, be pro-peace instead. If you're antihunger, be pro-people having more than enough to eat. If you are anti-a-particular politician, be pro-his opponent. Often elections are tipped in favor of the person that the people are really against.

Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke and transatlantic pipelines need to be stopped and towns are blown up in fertilizer explosions or schools for impaired children need to be built, Willie shows up. Does the show for free. For three hours. Everyone has a good time, and somewhere, Bono squirms just a little bit on that self-righteous cross he's nailed himself to.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Community-betterment organizations like the League of United Latin American Citizens reacted to rampant discrimination against their members by insisting that society treat Latinos as whites.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

A pro–civil rights columnist for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger noted the familiar faces from his reporting on White Citizens Council meetings back in the 1950s and '60s. Only one thing was different: "Their enemy now is not the black man but 'liberalism,' in any form, as they see it.

Working for the environment didn't mean Ewan was a particularly nice person. He was very self-righteous about the fact that he didn't want any part of Graham's business empire, which apparently was playing its own small part in the "global capitalist conspiracy." That didn't stop him from taking money from Graham whenever he was home.

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing

We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.

You save the whales and shoot the people, huh?

I don't know what a hard-ass feminist is. I'm a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I'm sure you're about to give an example of where I failed in that.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice;