Quotes About Activism

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.

Block by block, street by street, our city has the resources, the activism, and the ideas to meet these challenges if we act boldly and reshape what's possible. After all, Boston was founded on a revolutionary promise: that things don't have to be as they always have been.

I have promised myself that I'm going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

We support films like 'Thappad' and so on, but if we aren't brave enough to speak up for ourselves and stand for what is right, is there any point in celebrating movies that promote this?

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the war, we will stop the government.

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

I am always with poor and will continue work for protecting their interests.