Quotes About Activism

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.

Labeling it 'political' is not going to stop me from talking about it.

The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)

the awareness of a community that indifference, as well as injustice, was their enemy.

public protest of the direction his party is taking. Convention

Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating.

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

Some of those demonstrations were over the Vietnam War. Some were over racial or gender inequality.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

In Los Angeles, the Reverend W. Clarence Wright, pastor of the fashionable Wilshire Presbyterian Church, led efforts to keep the Wilshire District all white. He personally sued to evict an African American war veteran who had moved into the restricted area in 1947.

Something crossed her mind and, suddenly alert, she gave me the fish-eye. "I suppose you're one of Dorothy's gay-lib friends. Is that it? March up and down the street, make a commotion, get us all into this trouble?" "I guess I am," I said. "But I don't think I'll march today, Mrs. Stout. Not in this weather.

All literature is protest.

How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?

If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell

Luther King gave people "the feeling that they could be bigger and stronger and more courageous than they thought they could be," Bayard Rustin said—in part because of the powerful new weapon, non-violent resistance, that had been forged on the Montgomery battlefield.

The Scientologists, of course, have had to fight for their rights many times;

If you want to affect your environment, don't get lost in your activism. Stop for a moment and make a mandorla. Don't just do — be something.

Without Christian Science, shamanism, orgone or anything of that sort, the Liberal activist, Norman Cousins, has three times cured himself of major illnesses using the hypothesis that each human contains a healing energy that most of us do not know how to use.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I'm interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.