Activist Quotes

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

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.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

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

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

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

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

Astronauts: space activists.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

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

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

I want to be an activist professor.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

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

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

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.