Activist Quotes

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I want to be an activist professor.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

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.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

To sum it up, succuss is merely a small act of courageousness.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

Praise the Creator while you have grace to sing.

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.