Activist Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the activists, in the United States we would still have child labor, we would still have 16-hour days.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: content.time.com

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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 documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.

  Garth Kravits

  Girl, Mother, Humble

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• You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

  Ray McGovern

  Mind, Way, Certain

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that's the best way to go about it. And I do think that it's increasingly being more effective with the work that's being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it's not necessarily coming from one centralized place.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Done, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.

  David Weigel

  Racism, Political, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.

  Masha Gessen

  Past, Leader, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

  Ana Castillo

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

  Rachel Weisz

  Brother, Daydreaming, Gardener

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. 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, Writing, Luck

  Source: progressive.org

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• No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.72, Vintage

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• Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the
  benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of
  monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does
  more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the
  world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and
  everywhere.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, People, Monsters

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• Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.

  Rahul Bose

  Reality, Differences, Fool

  "'Indian Public Is Not Fool' - Rahul Bose" by Joginder Tuteja, www.filmibeat.com. October 8, 2009.

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• This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

  Conan O'Brien

  Kkk, Coward, Faces

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• There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

  Tom Morello

  Trying, World, Injustice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Passion, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

  Joel Bakan

  Progressive, Embrace, Resources

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• My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

  Robin McLeavy

  Mom, Australia, Environmental

  "Q&A – Robin McLeavy (Eva)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. January 2012.

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Passion

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• So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

  Kate Clinton

  People, Election

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• The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

  Susan Sarandon

  Daughter, Wisdom, Rap

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