Activist Quotes - Page 12

• My passion for others and my experience as an actor and citizen of the world has naturally shaped me into a social and political activist who finds fulfillment from their work with meaningful organizations.

  Sufe Bradshaw

  Meaningful, Passion, Organization

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• [Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Luther, Ends

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rights, Media, People

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fun, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Feminist, Environmental, Groups

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• Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

  Noam Chomsky

  Movement, Kind, Choir

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.

  Emily Raboteau

  Country, Perspective, Organized Religion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.

  Michael Lind

  Wall, Military, Wings

  Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com

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• The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Home, Oakland

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

  Allan Nairn

  Real, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

  Allan Nairn

  Space, Priorities, Administration

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Years, Profound, Chic

  Source: time.com

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• If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Bases, Active, Ifs

  Source: time.com

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Perfect

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Father, Rights, Racist

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his message was "hope and change." People wanted change, for good reasons, and they wanted hope. Disillusioned with what took place, they turned to someone else who was offering hope and change. When they're disillusioned with that, it depends on what activists and others do.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eight, Offering, Years

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

  John Cusack

  Saws, Moral, Position

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• I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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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 said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Children, Mean

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Honest, Speak

  Source: libcom.org

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• The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some right wing activist who are doing their best to cast aspersions on his character and to question his religion and citizenship.

  Jimmy Carter

  Character, Wings, America

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Mean

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

  Susan Faludi

  Views, Feminist, Generations

  "Dear Susan, I Have Some Interesting News for You…". Interview With Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2016.

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