Activist Quotes

Activist Quote of the day

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform lives.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

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

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

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Astronauts: space activists.

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.