Top 1200 Social Activism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is vital that MPs take the issue of climate change seriously and support the students in their activism. They can rest assured that I certainly do.

If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself, then I'm not effecting any change in my time here on Earth.

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

I think my relationship with social media has changed so much that I really resent social media now. And I'm trying to figure out what a successful exit strategy is as someone who has gotten a lot of opportunities because of social media and how it's given me a portfolio.

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

I think Black Lives Matter is a necessary, modern group of activism and should be applauded. I encourage them to continue in their efforts.

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.

It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.

As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

As the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, I certainly would not be here today without the passion, dedication, and activism of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

We are all driven by our personal realities. Otherwise you are a saint or someone who has dedicated their lives to activism.

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

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

I have noticed encouraging signs in the fight against religious intolerance, and I am impressed by the outstanding degree of human rights activism in India.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.

Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.

When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

I have started using the expression 'compassionate activism': It's about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

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.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.