Activism Quotes - Page 9

• Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

  Bethann Hardison

  Feet, Car, Trademarks

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• Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Joy, Faces, Fine

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.49, Canongate Books

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• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

  "The Bhakti Way of Investing in the Ecology of the Heart" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

  Eva Longoria

  Passion, Thinking, Differences

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 10, 2011.

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• The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

  Elvis Presley

  Peace, Children, Growing Up

  Song: Into The Ghetto

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• My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

  Dolores Huerta

  Kids, People, Get Involved

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected...and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.

  Simone Campbell

  Real, Roots, People

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• If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

  Julia Bacha

  Motivation, Inspiration, Hands

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• Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

  Majora Carter

  Mean, Justice, Community

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• The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

  John Darnielle

  Strong, Rights, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

  Larry Brilliant

  People, Global Warming, Far Away

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• Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Thinking, Race, Space

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• We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.

  Andy Hobsbawm

  Creativity, Simple, People

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Home, Ambition, People

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• Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line. Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  David Brooks

  Party, Taken, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.

  Jill Stein

  Responsibility, Medicine, Leader

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Believe, People, Political

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• No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Sane, Humans

  Source: libcom.org

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• It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met [with Hillary Clinton], how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.

  Terry Gross

  Commitment, Thinking, Night

  "Covering Hillary Clinton, A Candidate 'Forged In The Crucible' Of Conflict". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 27, 2016.

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• There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

  Neil Young

  Art, Communication, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Abbie Hoffman's inspiration was, in a sense, inadvertent. I wanted to do something to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Woodstock at the time, and it just happened that Abbie died the same year. Hoffman was always an inspiration to me, for his activism and execution of that activism, and any of his books will give you a guide and a map to creating almost anything, if you apply it to what it is you want to do.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Book, Inspiration, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

  Miley Cyrus

  Love You, Community, Radical

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• Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

  Bill Ayers

  Art, Contradictory, Courses

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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