Activism Quotes - Page 2

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

We won't get fooled again!

We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Philanthropy is activism.

All activism is fake activism.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.