Activism Quotes - Page 15

• We won't get fooled again!

  Pete Townshend

  Fooled

  "Song: "Won't Get Fooled Again"". June 25, 1971.

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• So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV

  Tom Lehrer

  Mom, Long, Waiting

  Song: So Long, Mom

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• I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.

  Eve Ensler

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  People, Political, Important

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.

  Rainn Wilson

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Language, Busy

  "How I do my computing". stallman.org. 2006.

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• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Doors, Unity, Movement

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• As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

  Margaret Sanger

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.

  Susan J. Ellis

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.

  Selena Fox

  Beautiful, Writing, Heart

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

  Eric Burdon

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• Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.

  Tim Wise

  Writing, Color, Years

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• I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Political, Revolution

  Source: the-talks.com

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• A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

  Anne Waldman

  Mean, Pride, Creative

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Slides, Public Speaking

  Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.

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• Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Feminist, Poverty

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

  Scott Thompson

  Light, Laughing, Looks

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• For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

  Mike McCurry

  Social Activism, Progressive, Theology

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• How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

  Sting

  Peace, Boys, Special

  "Song: Russians (The Dream Of The Blue Turtles)". November 1985.

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• I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

  Joe Walsh

  Song, Peace, Sorry

  Song: Song For A Dying Planet, Album: Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992

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• Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

  James Brown

  Peace, Kids, Special

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• I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

  Michael Moore

  People, Talk To Me, Knows

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