Activism Quotes

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Spiritual, Guilty

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Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Family, Happiness

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Alone, no one wins freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom, Winning, Groups

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Tombs of Atuan”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

Sojourner Truth

Determination, Fighting, Light

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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

Eve Ensler

Fighting, Compassion, Mad

Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Nelson Mandela

Family, Fighting, Opportunity

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

Love, Inspirational, Life

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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

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I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

Susan Sarandon

Children, Careers, Justice

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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Jim Hightower

Effort, Campaigns, Levels

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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Paul Wellstone

Perfect, Political, Utopia

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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

Karl Rove

Views, Justice, Empathy

The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

"The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wisdom, Peace, Kings

"Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Christopher Lasch

Technique, Masters, Owners

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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

George Takei

Stars, Second Chance, Fans

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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Marianne Williamson

Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Huey Newton

Hands, Revolution, Rebellion

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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

Thinking, Order, Ministry

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alice Walker

Planets, Living On

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