Quotes About Activism

We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition

May we keep rage off of the freeways, and out of the workplace, and out of our homes, and direct it instead at racism, at poverty and at all the evils that we politely tolerate. May we learn in this new year that what really counts the most is not the years but the days, not the machines we have in our lives, but the people we have in our lives, not how much we can accumulate but how much we can share, and with whom.

Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

I speak for the trees!

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm.

We walked together in the pages of those paperbacks and marched right out of the pages to walk – and eventually march – together in the streets.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.