Quotes About Activism

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

Protests are part of our democracy.

I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.

If you look throughout American history, it has been protests and mass movements and the people rising up that has moved to this country forward.

We need to be our own heroes. We need a new way of looking at things. Greta Thunberg has shown us that. It's crazy, but this kid has proven that we can be our own leaders.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.

Nella vita odierna il mondo appartiene agli stolti, agli indifferenti e agli attivisti. Oggi il diritto di vivere e di trionfare si ottiene praticamente con gli stessi requisiti con cui si ottiene il ricovero in un manicomio: l'incapacità di pensare, l'amoralità e l'eccessiva agitazione.

I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

Feminism is cancer.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.