Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Activists - Page 2

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

War is just one more big government program.

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

Social media is not a safe space.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives - some limiting, others illuminating.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn't like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn't taken.

The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.

Give light and people will find the way.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

You don't have to live up to anyone else's standards, you don't have to look like anyone else, you don't have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.

For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy. The only real difference was that republicans thought the American meritocracy was already perfect and Democrats believed it could be perfected if we just dealt with racism and sexism and other forms of bigotry.

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

I'm bisexual. And so, you know, I've dated men and women.

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

George Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.

I am not ready to back away from my views.

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

Money is a mechanism for control.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.

You can never have too many friends.