Activism Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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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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• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Environmental

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Moving, Nsa

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Heart, Class, Political

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• Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

  Mal Fletcher

  Technology, Engagement, Humans

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• If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Mean, Rights

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• Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Practice, Requirements

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.30, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nannies, Planning, States

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Photography, Powerful, Believe

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• Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

  Ann Coulter

  Keys, Law, Judicial

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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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• I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Moving, Parent

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

  Michael Shermer

  Environmental, Flip, Global Warming

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.36, Henry Holt and Company

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• Love is hate
  War is Peace
  No is Yes
  And we're all free.

  Tracy Chapman

  Peace, Hate, War

  Song: Why?, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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• The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.

  Manning Marable

  Struggle, Years, Organization

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