Activist Quotes - Page 5

• For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

  Anna Funder

  Past, People, Ordinary

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• This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

  Jay Sekulow

  Boys, Sight, America

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• Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Ghetto, Average, Black

  Theodore J. Kaczynski (2010). “Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.”, p.41, Feral House

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• There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Dream, Simple, Beloved Community

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

  Peter Carey

  Littles

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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• A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Thinking

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• The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

  Erick Erickson

  Ghetto, Gay, Rights

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  "Anderson Cooper's 'I'm Gay' Announcement Draws Mixed Reactions on Twitter" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 02, 2012.

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• As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

  Isaac Hayes

  Past, Rights, Years

  "Isaac Hayes quits South Park after it satirises Scientology" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2006.

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• I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

  Katy Perry

  Gay, Props

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• The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

  Tony Kushner

  Brother, Husband, Writing

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• Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Tea, President

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• To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.

  Louie Psihoyos

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, Humility, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Energy, Alternatives, Dedicated

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• In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Party, Capitalist Economy, Political

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Fists, Standing

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• As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, People, Needs

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

  Saul Williams

  Soul, Steps, Spirit

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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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• We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining, why? Because of the sexual revolution. Where did the sexual revolution come from? The sexual revolution came from the activists of the American gay movement.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, America, Revolution

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• Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Sex, Gay

  "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

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