Top 459 Activists Quotes & Sayings

Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia.

Astronauts: space activists.

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support.

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

All our friends - so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We're just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists - AIDS activists.

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

Politicians aren't leading us. Nurses are. Doctors are. Teachers are. Activists are.

Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.

I have my own support network of other organizers, activists, and attorneys.

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.

Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.

Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

If you look at the well-informed Democratic Sanders activists - I don't know if you were in Philadelphia, but there was no secret about their enthusiasm for our campaign. But once you got more remote from the super activists in the Bernie [Sanders] camp, they don't know so much about our campaign. And the question is whether they are going to have a chance to be informed.

Literature births activists.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.