Quotes About Activism

John Lewis was a giant in the face of adversity and injustice, putting his life on the line for our freedoms and committing his life to protecting the right to vote.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest.

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

You can't fine somebody for a peaceful protest.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.

We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.

In May 2011, I drove a car in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, to protest the kingdom's ban on women driving.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest - and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us - and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.