Activism Quotes - Page 10

• The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

  Elvis Presley

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

  Song: Into The Ghetto

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• Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

  Rodney Crowell

  Peace, Men, Special

  Song: Time to Go Inward, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

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• To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

  Neneh Cherry

  Peace, Children, Special

  Song: Woman, Album: Man

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

  John Denver

  Dream, Peace, Men

  Song: What One Man Can Do, Album: Seasons of the Heart, 1982

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• Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

  John Lennon

  War, Mind, And Love

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• In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

  Marisha Pessl

  Army, College, Political

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• People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Struggle, People, Problem

  Speech in San Francisco, 1968

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• A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empathy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.

  Vincent Harding

  America, People, Earth

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• It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.

  Benjamin Spock

  Men, President, United States

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

  "The Bhakti Way of Investing in the Ecology of the Heart" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Energy, Degrees

  "Jimmy Carter: I Feel Like I'm 'Superior' to Other Ex-Presidents". Interview with Brian Williams, nation.foxnews.com. May 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Interest, Consumption, Happens

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• The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't say the same, and when you hear their stories you may be a little bit compelled. And it doesn't have to be dark. In the Congo, there are women who've been raped and re-raped, and they're so powerful, and they can carry trees on their heads, and they're dancing!

  Rosario Dawson

  Powerful, Dark, People

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Honor, Thrill

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Life, Needs, Use

  "Revolution for the hell of it".

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• Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

  Rory Stewart

  Mind, Democracy, Structure

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Military, Real

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• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Ocean, Sky

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

  Curtis Jackson

  Peace, Special, Together

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• You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, War, Gun

  Song: Soldier Of Plenty, Album: Lives in the Balance, 1986

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