Quotes About Activism

If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When evaluating global happiness, is it wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men? Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.

On 11 January 2013, Dataism got its first martyr when Aaron Swartz, a twenty-six-year-old American hacker, committed suicide in his apartment.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

Blaming Trump and the rise of the alt-right for antiblackness conveniently forgets that BLM came into existence during the "golden age" of the Obama presidency.

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

Hating the haters, the morally repulsive, the fascists of the world, is indeed an endless source of libidinal satisfaction for "woke" liberals. But what changes does it actually produce?

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

In 2016, protesters at London's King's College disrupted a talk by Ami Ayalon, the former head of Shin Bet, Israel's version of our FBI. Students from a pro-Palestinian group chanted, threw chairs, smashed windows, and repeatedly set off the fire alarm in the room where Ayalon was speaking about the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine situation, which is something he strongly supports.

So that is why the extremists try to keep girls from going to school? That is the reason we are poisoned and beaten, and our teachers threatened and killed?

Mother, father, there is no passing the cup. I want to be a troublemaker when I grow up.

One thing is certain: the lesson of Bobby Sands's determination comes through. One image returns over and over again: a naked man locked up twenty-four hours in a cell, without even the most rudimentary comforts or reading materials. He turns to his cellmate and chastises him for sleeping all day. "It's a waste of your opportunities, isn't it?

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

We are living in the era of the violent do-gooder.

Heroes of 21st Century, in my honest view, are those who will fight injustice, poverty and racism, improve the quality of life for humans and animals alike, and most importantly, incorporate more sustainability in our daily lives everyday.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.