Top 30 Activism Inspiration Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Activism Inspiration

#1. To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

#2. You do it for yourself. You don't expect to change the world. You don't even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can't not do it and be who you are. Or who you're meant to be.

Martin Sheen

#3. No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Anne Michaels

#4. We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#5. After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

Yasmina Reza

#6. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

Rebecca Solnit

#7. I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.

Solange Knowles

#8. Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

Darren Shan

#9. We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastiao Salgado

#10. You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

Will Smith

#11. The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

Robert Lucas Jr.

#12. It wasn't until the 1860s, and some landmark work by Louis Pasteur in France, that it was shown conclusively that life cannot arise spontaneously but must come from pre-existing cells.

Bill Bryson

#13. The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now

Carrie Newcomer

#15. Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.

Willow Bay

#16. Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

DaShanne Stokes

#17. You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Arthur Miller

#18. The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference - by offering
living proof.

John Capecci And Timothy Cage

#19. There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Abbie Hoffman

#20. The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

David Petersen

#21. Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

Sam Altman

#22. There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can't just write poems. We have to put poems into action.

Jeremiah Walton

#23. It all suddenly seemed like a hopeless fight, but so what? I told myself. What does it cost you to pretend that the can change (for the better)? That history is an arc and it bends toward justice, even if it is long?

Kelly J. Cogswell

#24. I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man
public opinion.

Clarence Darrow

#25. the heartrending petty bourgeois piteousness of cucumber sandwiches passed around by accounting majors whose overly colorful bow ties had been expressly chosen to keep them from looking like waiters.

Nell Zink