Alice Walker Quotes About Activism

Quotes about: Activism

• Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Planets, Activism, Living On

• Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

  Alice Walker

  Compassion, Helping Others, Volunteer

• It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Fall, Hero

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

• Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Ubuntu, Alive

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.100, The New Press

• My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

  Alice Walker

  Evil, Needs, Television

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