Top 100 Quotes About Activism
#1. Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.
Mal Fletcher
#2. Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.
Chantal Zabus
#3. Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.
William A. Rusher
#4. Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
Alice Walker
#5. Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
Alice Walker
#6. If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
Thomas Sowell
#7. One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
Jeremy Heimans
#8. Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
Blythe Danner
#9. I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.
Randall Robinson
#10. Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.
Eve Ensler
#11. Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
Cherrie Moraga
#12. Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.
Bill Ayers
#13. Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
#14. The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.
Selena Fox
#15. In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
Marisha Pessl
#16. My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
Steve Earle
#17. As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.
Rhys Ifans
#18. I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
Eve Ensler
#19. Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.
Charles W. Calhoun
#20. My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Al Sharpton
#21. I'm struggling to keep up with her pace. Though I'm taller, she's built for speed and I'm built for political activism.
Jani Berghuis
#22. Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
Rebecca Solnit
#23. Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
Scott Thompson
#24. What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in
community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.
Ben Sollee
#25. The most effective form of activism is kindness.
Bryant McGill
#26. Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
Larry Kramer
#27. What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
David Price
#28. What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.
Ian Svenonius
#29. Activism has been very productive in our society.
Anthony Fauci
#30. I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
Norman Lear
#32. Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
Gloria Steinem
#33. It isn't polyamory that is only for the young and carefree, I explain, but activism.
Elisabeth Sheff
#34. Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.
Ann Coulter
#35. There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city.
Gyan Prakash
#36. I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.
Thao Nguyen
#37. In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.
Chris Kluwe
#38. Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
Daryl Hannah
#39. The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
Cornel West
#40. Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
Thomas Sowell
#41. Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.
Matt Bomer
#42. My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.
Eric Burdon
#43. I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.
Dick Armey
#44. Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.
Rachel Maddow
#45. The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism ... In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.
George Elliott Clarke
#46. The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita Roddick
#47. From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there's going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.
Chris DeWolfe
#48. It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing ... We made giving exciting.
Bob Geldof
#49. What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.
Christina Engela
#50. You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.
Russell Simmons
#51. Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
Gloria Steinem
#53. Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
Ellen Lupton
#54. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan
#55. 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
#56. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#57. Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
Bono
#58. For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
Mike McCurry
#59. The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that, that's not a statement, that's not politics, that's not activism, it's just criminal behavior.
Barack Obama
#60. I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.
Jane Fonda
#61. Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.
Michael Shermer
#62. I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that ... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.
Kelly Reichardt
#63. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
William Baldwin
#64. I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.
Damian Kulash
#65. When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.
Juan Williams
#66. Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.
Radhanath Swami
#67. I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#68. There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#69. Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
Annie Lennox
#70. I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.
Deepak Chopra
#71. Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook
#72. Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it
Thom Hartmann
#73. The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.
Glenn Greenwald
#74. You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli
#75. My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.
Jess Row
#76. Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
Glenn Greenwald
#77. Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.
Stewart Brand
#78. I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
Shepard Fairey
#79. I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.
Sara Ramirez
#80. Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
Malcolm Gladwell
#81. Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
Ela Bhatt
#82. In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
Camille Paglia
#83. I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
Camille Paglia
#84. Ronan was not going to Henry Cheng's under any circumstances. All that smiling and activism gave him a rash.
Maggie Stiefvater
#85. Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
Janine Di Giovanni
#86. There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
Camille Paglia
#87. Activism has always been the driving force for change.
David Swanson
#88. 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
#89. There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
Henry Rollins
#90. Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
Eyvind Kang
#91. As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
George Takei
#92. Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.
Tom Robbins
#93. Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.
Michael Kinsley
#94. For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
Fady Joudah
#95. On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!
Widad Akreyi
#96. It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
Michael Kinsley
#97. The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?
Bill O'Reilly
#98. I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
Bonnie Raitt
#99. I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.
Ronald Reagan
#100. Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
Tommy Chong
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