Quotes About Activism

There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

I may not be able to prevent a million girls or boys from being trafficked, but I can at least help out 10-15 people I know.

I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.

Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished.

Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets as we organize for change.

I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

So here comes this black guy from the Bay Area talking about peace, feminism, challenging racism, challenging the priorities of the country, and talking about preserving the fragile nature of our ecological system. People looked at me as if I was a freak.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

I have the responsibility to tell everybody that I am not the only political prisoner in Hong Kong and that there will be more coming.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.