Activism Quotes | Quotes about Activism

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Activism Quote #1

?God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.
Elsa Tamez

Activism Quote #2

[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
Paul Krugman
Activism Quote #3

…There’s forty-two thousand jobs, near ten thousand of ’em got by people like us. Everyone’s gotta eat. Industry feeds ’em. They figure Little Bear here’s gonna clean it up. He squeezed his baby, a dimpled plump girl with tufts of jet-black hair.

Paa paa ba baaa! she said. It was time for a nap.

Lou sipped from his thermos, and Little Bear’s eyes drooped, and Missy remembered the voice of Rasmus Krook. 'The people will pay with their whole being: physically, mentally, ideologically, spiritually, with their land, their soul. And not just country people. Not just native people. Poison will flow through villages, towns, and cities and not stop. We must rise up. We must disrupt the system. Capitalism is a deception.'

You can help pirates, she said, because that’s the only answer she knew. Lou lifted his coffee in salute, and Missy stood up to jump.
Kate Inglis
Activism Quote #4

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.
David E. Wilkins
Activism Quote #5

A little difference is still different.
Daniel Younger
Activism Quote #6

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.
Anthony Marra
Activism Quote #7

A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.
Auliq Ice
Activism Quote #8

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
Nadine Gordimer
Activism Quote #9

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul D. Alinsky
Activism Quote #10

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it
Thom Hartmann
Activism Quote #11

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.
Seyla Benhabib
Activism Quote #12

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
Barack Obama
Activism Quote #13

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Activism Quote #14

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
Anthony Standen
Activism Quote #15

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.
Activism Quote #16

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?
Curious George Brigade
Activism Quote #17

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.
Mira Grant
Activism Quote #18

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?
Nancy Garden
Activism Quote #19

Antigay activists have historically maintained that same-sex sexuality is a lifestyle choice that should be discouraged, deemed illegitimate, and even punished by the culture at large. In other words, if lesbian/gay/bisexual people to not have to be gay but are simply choosing a path of decadence and deviance, then the government should have no obligation to protect their civil rights or honor their relationships; to the contrary, the state should actively condemn same-sex sexuality and deny it legal and social recognition in order to discourage others from following that path.
Not surprisingly, advocates for gay/lesbian/bisexual rights see things differently. They counter that sexual orientation is not a matter of choice but an inborn trait that is much beyond an individual's control as skin or eye color. Accordingly, since gay/lesbian/bisexual individuals cannot choose to be heterosexual, it is unethical to discriminate against them and to deny legal recognition to same-sex relationships.
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Perhaps instead of arguing that gay/lesbian/bisexual individuals deserve civil rights because they are powerless to change their behavior, we should affirm the fundamental rights of all people to determine their own emotional and sexual lives.
Lisa Diamond
Activism Quote #20

arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.
Swami Vivekananda
Activism Quote #21

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.
Cornal West
Activism Quote #22

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.
Cornel West
Activism Quote #23

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
Vandana Shiva
Activism Quote #24

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
Mark Steel
Activism Quote #25

Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose religion at all, or who are simply not all are interested in discussing belief or lack thereof.
David G. McAfee
Activism Quote #26

Awareness without action is worthless.
Phillip C. McGraw
Activism Quote #27

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.
Joss Whedon
Activism Quote #28

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Activism Quote #29

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
Daisaku Ikeda
Activism Quote #30

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.
Mordecai Richler

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