If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
Alone, no one wins freedom.
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
Action expresses priorities.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.
War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
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