Quotes About Activism

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Cuando alguien me comunica que es apolítico, siempre pregunto en qué política concreta está pensando.

I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

I found I generally preferred the old leftie, radical-activist types who stood charmingly and unfashionably on the side of substance.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.

People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

My clients are the whales and the seals.