Quotes About Activism

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.' He paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom

abrazaba cualquier causa perdida que apareciera en las noticias, desde el maltrato a los animales hasta el desarme nuclear.

Llevaba años hablando de desafiar a la autoridad del régimen, pero ese día lo estaba haciendo realidad

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

Power to the peaceful!

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I believe passionately in the power of people.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

People underestimate the power we have to make real change for animals; it's with our vote. Representatives may not care about animals, but they care about our vote and that is our leverage.

John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.