Activism Quotes - Page 8

• I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Responsibility, Voice

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• living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Dying, Purpose, Honorable

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• anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Change, Spiritual, Purpose

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Movement

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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Buying, Grapes

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• I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

  Fanny Lewald

  Arms, Weapons, Heavy

  Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

  Bill Vaughan

  Drinking, Political, Abuse

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

  John Lennon

  War, Mind, And Love

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• Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.

  Unita Blackwell

  Ideas, Knowing, Long

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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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• 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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• As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

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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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• 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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• 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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• Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

  Joy Browne

  Hurt, Women, Political

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• The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

  Ted Nugent

  Thoughtful, Views, Policy Making

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• You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Community, Mind, Good Work

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• If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.

  Amy Lockwood

  Thinking, Trying, Hiv

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• I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Country, People, Political

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