Quotes About Activism

The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must not be content to accept pablum. They must be above wheeling and dealing.

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.

I can fight better on the outside. I can't fight too many Democrats on the inside like I can on the outside.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

When I went to college, I majored in anti-war demonstrations, you know? I mean, really!

Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a 'common denominator with the characters that I play.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.

The Marxist, anti-cop, anti-family Black Lives Matter movement is not designed to make black lives better, clearly.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.

When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.'

I think it's a different kind of activism. Like, women shouldn't have to step into men's roles to be empowered. They should be able to step into themselves. So that's what I try to bring, that we shouldn't be thinking of it as menswear or womenswear; it should be clothing for people.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.