Activism Quotes - Page 18

• In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics are perceived. Campuses are a main flashpoint of the post-2016 culture wars about free speech, racism, and elite privilege. That's undeniable.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  War, Racism, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

  Frank Zappa

  Dream, Peace, Special

  Song: Son Of Orange County

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• Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.

  Mickalene Thomas

  People, Voting, Vote

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• I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Organization, Activist

  Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, www.believermag.com. March 2014.

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• Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Scary, Ignorant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

  Randall Robinson

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

  Thao Nguyen

  Wise, Thinking, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.

  Adam Braver

  Rights, People, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rights, Equal Pay, Stories

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and they all said the same thing. That there's a lot of popular, kind of, concern and activism, but it is very fragmented. That the groups have very specific, narrow agendas and they don't interact and cooperate with one another. Ok, that's something you have to overcome to build a mass popular movement. And that's, media can help, but they also benefit from it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Numbers, Mexican

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

  Bill McKibben

  Smart, Squares, Uprising

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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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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• I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

  Bill Ayers

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Tea, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

  John Baldoni

  Leadership, Goal, Outcomes

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• Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Interesting, Police

  "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

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• art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Advocacy, Art Is

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.72, Penguin

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• Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, Children, Giving

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• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Success, Winning, Giving

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Heart, Challenges, Problem

  "Small Change" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  Al Gore

  Past, Civilization, Done

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Life, War, Robots

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Dark, Journey, Stores

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.89, Canongate Books

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