Activism Quotes

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

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

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

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

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.

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

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

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.

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

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.

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

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

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

We won't get fooled again!

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

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

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

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

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love.

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

Philanthropy is activism.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

All activism is fake activism.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.