Quotes About Activism

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

Weve always been encouraged to talk about political issues. Weve been taught to look outside of our own lives. Ive always had that fire in my belly.

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

There can be no activist judges from any political party.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives to the existing system, and we have to try to impact what is happening in the existing system.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them.

The Internet is a politically contested space.