Activist Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.

  David Limbaugh

  Mother, Party, Thinking

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• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  Kanye West

  Facts, Clock, Happens

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• There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

  Bruce Jenner

  Born, Said, Live By

  Glamour Women of the Year 2015 Award Acceptance Speech, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.

  Joanna Macy

  Teacher, Buddhist, Writing

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• I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

  Martin Burns

  Thinking, Long, Wells

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• I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Years, Wings

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• When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

  Tommy Chong

  Jail, Comedian

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• I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.

  Pamela Anderson

  Artist, Icons, People

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Confusion, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

  Hassan Blasim

  Running, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Animal, Rights, Cruelty

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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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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• Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.

  Renee Montagne

  Country, Believe, Home

  "Honduran Indigenous Rights Leader, Berta Cáceres, Is Murdered". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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