Quotes About Activism

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

Do not believe that because you are a revolutionary you must feel sad.

Environmentalists are so dreary.

No one," Ben noted, "would have known about James Chaney if he had been by himself.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped? Do you ever feel like shit about your body? Do you ever feel like something is weong with you because you don't fit into this bizarre ideal of what girls are supposed to be like? Well, my friend, I hate to break it to you, but you're hardcore feminist. I swear.

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don't hold back because you think it's unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn't be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us. (I know, I'm cheesy.) So the next time someone calls you emotional, or asks if you're PMSing, call them on their bullshit.

Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted this wrongness as inevitable.

The important thing is that we are participating-whether it's by running, voting, or supporting (financially or otherwise) candidates who make a difference to women. Don't leave shit up to others, 'cause that's how we get fucked over.

Who would I be if I didn't live in a world that hated women?

Be the kind of people that have enough passion to change the world. If we let ourselves be fire, thunder, or lightning, we could alter everything.

You know when I am in the U.S.S.R. people write to me in Pravda when there is an injustice in a town in Azerbaijan. They say Karkov will help us.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.