Activist Quotes

• I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Animals
  • Lifestyle
  • Vegan

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Spiritual
  • Genuine
  • Enlightened

• My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution of the protests is incredible; the signs are amazing, creative and eye catching. You can really feel the unity in the group, running like a well oiled machine towards the goal of liberating our captive animal friends.

  

  Camille
  • Eye
  • Goal
  • Animal

• I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say is that a lot of the designers I wear are gay and I like their clothes.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Gay
  • Designers
  • Activist

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Saudi Arabia

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Professor
  • Activist

• For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Tragedy
  • Heartache

• I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

  

  Sonita Alizadeh
  • Marriage
  • Afghanistan
  • Activist

• The tone is set at home. If parents know their kids are skipping classes, they are our biggest ally to get them back into class.

  

  John Gates
  • Home
  • Kids
  • American

• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Worked
  • Factory
  • Trotsky

• Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

  

  Will Self
  • Political
  • Conviction
  • Stripes

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Spiritual
  • Goal

• The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Black

• To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

  

  Mark Levin
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Invention

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

  

  William Baldwin
  • Long
  • Actors
  • Possibility

• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  

  Kanye West
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Facts

• Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.

  

  Sarah Gavron
  • Fighting
  • Struggle
  • Challenges

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

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • God
  • Passion
  • Activist

• 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.

  

  David Duke
  • Political
  • Support
  • Position

• I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Work
  • May
  • Single

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