Activism Quotes - Page 11

• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ideas, People, Drug

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Hurt, Thinking, Media

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

  Eric Burdon

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• My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

  Michel Foucault

  Pessimistic, Apathy, Dangerous

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Different, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots of things that by now are almost taken for granted were heretical in the 1960s. We had anti-sodomy laws until not many years ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Political, Culture, Awareness

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• All activism is fake activism.

  Cody Wilson

  Fake

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.

  Rachel Maddow

  Simple, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Party

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, Long, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Parks, Revolution

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through activism.

  Daayiee Abdullah

  Gay, People, Politician

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and my passion for literature whenever possible if it helps me to wrestle demons, and to more effectively communicate what I believe to be most important to our lives.

  Michael Tobias

  Art, Believe, Passion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Moving, Mean

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• The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

  Malcolm X

  America, Failing, Made

  Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.26, Arcade Publishing

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• We won't get fooled again!

  Pete Townshend

  Fooled

  "Song: "Won't Get Fooled Again"". June 25, 1971.

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• We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

  Anne Waldman

  Mean, Pride, Creative

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

  Lee Maracle

  Art, Slides, Public Speaking

  Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.

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• Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

  Dean Spade

  Gay, Feminist, Poverty

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

  Scott Thompson

  Light, Laughing, Looks

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• For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

  Mike McCurry

  Social Activism, Progressive, Theology

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• How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

  Sting

  Peace, Boys, Special

  "Song: Russians (The Dream Of The Blue Turtles)". November 1985.

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• I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

  Joe Walsh

  Song, Peace, Sorry

  Song: Song For A Dying Planet, Album: Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992

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