Top 394 Activism Quotes & Sayings

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

Writing is a form of activism.

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

Eating is an act of activism for me; it's politics.

Activism is wasteful.

If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

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

All activism is fake activism.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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

Activism is in my DNA.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

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.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

Philanthropy is activism.

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

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

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

People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's not that much fun to be an activist. That's partly by design. They are sterile protests and anonymous e-mail activism - not the kind of thing where people fall in love, form friendships for life, and see the change they make right in front of them. I've seen that, when people start to experience doing these things together and the power that it has.

Hashtag activism is a catalyst, but things have to actually happen in real life.

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

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

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

Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

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.

Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the time, and it just happened that Abbie died the same year. Hoffman was always an inspiration to me, for his activism and execution of that activism, and any of his books will give you a guide and a map to creating almost anything, if you apply it to what it is you want to do.

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

Art is activism.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.