Activist Quotes - Page 14

• When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

  Rick Bass

  Eye, Views, People

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• The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Men, Air, Impact

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Environmental, Records

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  Octavia Spencer

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Fortunately, I come from an activist mother, so I didn't have to rely on the history books. The history books teach us nothing about the Underground Railroad aside from Harriet Tubman. So I knew more about it but, obviously, I had to dig deeper and expand my knowledge and do a lot of research once I took this project on. I had, like, a good two months to research before we started shooting, which isn't a lot, and I continued it throughout the five months of us shooting.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Mother, Book, Two

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.

  Sarah Gavron

  Struggle, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

  Avi Lewis

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

  Avi Lewis

  Phones, People, Community

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Thinking, Leader, Wealth

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

  Jay Carney

  Disappointment, Exercise, Rights

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• My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

  Anna Holmes

  Mother, Issues, Rights

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

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• I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

  Roger Ross Williams

  People, Stories, Filmmaker

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Corporate Journalism". Interview with Bernie Dwyer, chomsky.info. October 28, 2003.

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• Families are incubators for citizen activists.

  Ralph Nader

  Citizens

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

  David Mixner

  Fda, Years, Creating

  "Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

  Alexander Chee

  Writing, Parent, Culture

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Numbers

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Inner Peace

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Astronauts: space activists.

  Frank Borman

  Space, Astronaut

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• I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

  Carlos Delgado

  Baseball, Player, Political

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• There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Two, Environmental

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• People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

  Mal Fletcher

  People, Want, Consumers

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• No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Office, Liberty

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