Quotes About Activism

At this point we need them to feel disliked and outnumbered. Hell, mass numbers of people in the streets are about the only thing that scare governments, if you ask me.

Mass demonstration and insurrection are the only things that will beat them, history shows this.

nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for the better. Chenoweth

Art should be used to change things.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism.

Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?

han drev, ridde på bicycle og var radikal.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.

Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

Whereas John and Yoko might have comfortably lounged around in holiday mode on palatial country estates...the Lennons had this extraordinary urge and need to put something back. To stand up for reason in an unreasonable world, to take advantage of their extraordinary media profile to refocus public attitude and outlook on the murdering of other humans. (Ritchie Yorke)

Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by the masses. If you want to launch a revolution, don't ask yourself, 'How many people support my ideas?' Instead, ask yourself, 'How many of my supporters are capable of effective collaboration?