Quotes About Activism

It Takes 17 Muscles To Smile and 42 To Frown...It Takes Only 13 Muscles to Throw A Molotov Cocktail

I would rather live in a world where people shout, "This is wrong." than live in a world with superheroes saving the day.

Unnecessary violence against animals is a heinous crime. Be a voice for those who do not have one.

Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

We must demand excellence of ourselves and agitate and advocate justice from the larger society.

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Dès qu'on entre en lutte contre la guerre, on entre en lutte contre le gouvernement.

It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. If love comes from the heart, where does hate come from? Children aren't born knowing how to hate. They must be taught. Therefore, the lesson is simple. Let's not teach our children hatred and prejudice, because what they don't know won't hurt them — or others. PEACE IS PATRIOTIC.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

But racism and inequality would never end if Blacks focused on easing white anxiety.

Public Enemy's theme was Black collectivity, the one thing that had been lost in the post–Civil Rights bourgeois individualist goldrush. Over the years, rap groups had shrunk down to duos, but Public Enemy brought the crew back.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Norman Morrison soaked himself in petrol and burned himself on the steps of the Pentagon in protest against the Vietnam war...Would it perhaps have taken greater courage to set fire to the President? A body of men who sleep soundly on a daily programme of sanctioned mass-murder are surely only distrubed by personal danger.

Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills, and the dollar dropped six points on Wall Street.

Movements are born from the problems of everyday lives, but they are not limited by them.