Activism Quotes

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.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

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.

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

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Awareness without action is worthless.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

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.

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.