Top 552 Activist Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.
I don't consider myself a true activist, in the sense that I don't like to do a lot of talking. I'll ask once or twice, and then it's time to fight.
My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
I just get involved in things when people come to me: I'm not a musician-slash-activist, that's not the word.
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.
Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.
We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.
The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.
Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.
It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.
People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.
I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films I do.
I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Being a Muslim American activist, I've been targeted by the right wing in a way that is very dangerous.
As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.
Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.
I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.
Since I am an actress and not a social activist, cinema is the best medium for me to state my views.
You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.
I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.
For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I'm very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens to be rooted in my community's trans experiences.
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.
Activist court rulings, a broken infrastructure, and widening loopholes, have thrown our immigration system into an unmistakable chaos.
I still describe myself as the activist with cleavage. Breast implants made me feel a lot sexier.
We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.
