Activism Quotes
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
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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.
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
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.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.
To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.
We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal
I do what I can, ' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.
I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.
It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before that way is found or followed.
The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...
Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.
I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.
Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.
War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.
Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.
To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.
The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.
Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demandin
If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
