Activist Quotes - Page 9

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

  Louie Psihoyos

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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Parent, Movement

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• 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, Circles, Luck

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. May 9, 2011.

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• Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

  Li Bingbing

  Perseverance, Years, People

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• It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminism, Groups, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

  Patch Adams

  Doctors, People, Justice

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• I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, I've Learned, Critics

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• I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.

  Ruth Smeeth

  Media, Momentum, Conspiracy

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

  Shane Barbi

  Fighting, Animal, Rights

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• I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Use, Different, Bathroom

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Community, Soul

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

  Jessica Valenti

  Media, Voice, Feminist

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is carefully developed, his tone is moderate, but his conclusions are radical and profound. No political theorist or moral philosopher, no public official or political activist, can afford to ignore his arguments.

  Michael Walzer

  Profound, People, Political

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• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  Larry Kramer

  Taken, Artist

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• Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Judging, Groups

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.

  Dan Mathews

  Frustration, Differences, People

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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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• I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

  Karen Bass

  Dream, Office, Community

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• Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective, Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

  Elliott Abrams

  Rights, Two, Support

  "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, Judging, Nominations

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

  Jeff Sessions

  Community, Borders, Mexico

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• [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Hero, School

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