Quotes About Activism

We must not reach for a status that is only bestowed by a white supremacist system that really despises us. We must resist. To claim not only our alignment with n****s, but our identity as N****s ourselves is the greatest act of defiance; it is our sacred duty as descendants of enslaved people, freedom fighters, street corner hustlers, and our own grandparents. Ultimately N**** theory— and praxis— is what will get us free." - Melina Abdullah

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. —Mother Jones

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

There was the fact that you created a political statement everywhere you went, and with everything you did, even if you didn't want to.

He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong.

Back then, she was certain she could change the world just by making commits to a text file repository,

Artists and scientists are activists. They look at the world as changeable and they look upon themselves as instruments for change. They understand that the slice of world they occupy is only a fragment but that the fragment is intrinsically connected to the whole. They know that action matters.

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.

But something happened to me as I got more and more involved in the Movement. It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

I want to be an activist professor.

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical.

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

As a daughter of a former NAACP chapter president, I know all too well how everyday people can change lives and create progress so many others consider 'impossible.'