Quotes About Activism

the sheer convenience of online political activism reduces its political potency.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

party crisis that prevailed from 1907 to 1912. That period of reaction saw a catastrophic decline in party fortunes. Discouragement, apathy, and political quietism took over in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. The party practically fell apart as former activists deserted it en masse and arrests took a heavy toll of those still willing to carry on. By the summer of 1909, not more than five or six of the Bolshevik underground committees were still functioning regularly in Russia.

What Is to Be Done?, which made the Marxist theory of revolution into a theory of how to make a revolution.

In the West we nearly all have strong moral intuitions about the wrongness of slavery, child labor, or animal cruelty. But that sure didn't used to be the case. Their wrongness has become an implicit moral intuition, a gut instinct concerning moral truth, only because of the fierce moral reasoning (and activism) of those who came before us, when the average person's moral intuitions were unrecognizably different. Our guts learn their intuitions.

Feminist' gets misrepresented as a dirty word, echoing throughout the timeline of experiences of activists in the women's movement since the 70's and longer; we've been seen as the radical feminists who want women to leave their husbands, become lesbians, dye their hair green. If wanting a woman to be able to own her own sexuality, to be able to live life with freedom and dignity and find and make her own choices are these things, then yes, we are nasty women - the nastiest around.

Wanting more is a step on the way to a political idea, or so say political theorists, and ideas can have a way of turning themselves into demands.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face ideas. They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should've had all along.

The suffragettes were all about speaking up, screaming for their rights. You can't speak up for your right to be silent.

I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

THE SUFFRAGETTES FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO SPEAK. THEY WERE ATTACKED, ARRESTED, AND THROWN IN JAIL FOR DARING TO DO WHAT THEY WANTED. LIKE THEY WERE, I AM WILLING TO STAND UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE. NO ONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO GIVE SPEECHES. I CHOOSE TO STAY SILENT.

Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

Expert Tip: "Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.