Activist Quotes - Page 11

• I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say is that a lot of the designers I wear are gay and I like their clothes.

  ASAP Rocky

  Gay, Rights, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Progressive

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• Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

  Ellen Page

  Religious, Pain, Leader

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Human Rights, Freedom Of Expression

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

  Russell Means

  Want, Patriot, American Indian

  Source: progressive.org

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• I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Uncles, Pain

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Hippie

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

  Gerald Stern

  Two, Leader, Boards

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Gay, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Heart, Character, Love Is

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Use, Different, Bathroom

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

  Dan Mathews

  Frustration, Differences, People

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Reading, Circles, Luck

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. May 9, 2011.

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• Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

  Li Bingbing

  Perseverance, Years, People

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• Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Voice, Add

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Parent, Movement

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.

  Joshua Wong

  Past, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Gay, Ideas, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminism, Groups, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Gay, Rights, Years

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• I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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