A Quote by Arundhati Roy

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do! — © Arundhati Roy
I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

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Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.
In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.
I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.
I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.
There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.
Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.
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