Activism Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

  Neil Young

  Men, Southern, Burning

  Song: Southern Man

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• The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'

  Jarreth J. Merz

  Believe, Echoes, Want

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• Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

  Emiliano Salinas

  Apathy

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• Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.

  Andrew Harvey

  Passion, Heart, Creating

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.490, North Atlantic Books

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• Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

  Nathan Runkle

  Motivation, Optimistic, Adversity

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• Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

  Jim Fowler

  Environmental, World, Littles

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• Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

  Neil Young

  Mother, Running, Song

  "After the Gold Rush" (song) (1970)

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• We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

  Gary L. Francione

  Writing, Animal, Numbers

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• Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

  Ela Bhatt

  Ideas, Political, Violence

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• If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.

  Anita Roddick

  Art, Creative, Looks

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• Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

  Stewart Brand

  Years, Growth, Environmental

  "Environmental Heresies". www.technologyreview.com. May 1, 2005.

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• To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Government, Cities, Destroying

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• He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Mother, Peace, Special

  Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

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• I might be an endangered species.

  Waylon Jennings

  Peace, Special, Might

  Song: Endangered Species

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• I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, Swim, Special

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

  Eric Burdon

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• Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Peace, Heart, Special

  Song: Put a Little Love in Your Heart

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• Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Sick, Forgiving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

  Ted Nugent

  Peace, Special, Wake Up

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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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