A Quote by Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
American - Novelist
Born: February 9, 1944

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Alice Walker

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

Alice Walker

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Joseph Murray

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

Douglas Tompkins

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

Ray McGovern

I'm going to bring in something called the London Living Rent. These are homes where rent is one third of average local earnings.

Sadiq Khan

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

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

Alicia Silverstone

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

I consider myself an 'actorvist.' When I say that, what I mean is that I use my art to inform my activism and to be my activism sometimes, but I also use my activism in my art.

Wilson Cruz

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

David Foreman

We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

David Miliband

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

Bob the Drag Queen

Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.

Tom Black

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.

Beth Behrs

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

Robin Sharma

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