Activist Quotes

Astronauts: space activists.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

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

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

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.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I was not an activist.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.