Activism Quotes

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

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.