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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.
Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.
Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.
My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.'
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.
There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.
The Leave side can only win if we have an effective ground campaign comprising of activists from across the political spectrum working together.
Activists create nonprofits for the sole purpose of suing their enemies, collecting a settlement check, and paying lawyers to find the next frivolous lawsuit.
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.
Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets as we organize for change.
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.
Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.
I think it's been fun to show that Bryan and I share a Honda Fit, and we're huge environmentalists, and we're big activists for animal rights.
Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.
All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
I am grateful to the activists and women who created the Black Lives Matter movement because I feel like they let me know I wasn't crazy.
You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.
I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
It's in the hands of activists to expand the universal concept of human rights to include homosexuals. Once they persuade the people, the politicians will follow.
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.
The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.
One of the things I'm proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.
My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.
I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.
The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired by activists and friends that I get to connect with.
