Quotes About Activism

My crime is being Indian. What's yours?

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian.

This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Small acts of resistance matter!

She was only herself. Her one weapon was her fierce belief that ordinary people could come together and make a better world.

God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;    ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,    and see that they get justice. (Proverbs 31:8–9, NLT)

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.