Activism Quotes - Page 12

• Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

  James Brown

  Peace, Kids, Special

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• A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Rights, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Language, Busy

  "How I do my computing". stallman.org. 2006.

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• Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Doors, Unity, Movement

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• As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

  Margaret Sanger

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Margaret Sanger (2012). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.

  Susan J. Ellis

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The world is a better place because of Margot. Let us remember and give thanks for Margot, her brilliant mind, her loving heart, her beautiful voice, her activism, her writings, her news reporting, her other works, her magic, her bright spirit.

  Selena Fox

  Beautiful, Writing, Heart

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• The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  People, Political, Important

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.

  Tim Wise

  Writing, Color, Years

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• I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

  Michael Moore

  People, Talk To Me, Knows

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• Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Eye, Thinking, Environmental

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Political, Revolution

  Source: the-talks.com

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• In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

  Chris Kluwe

  Mind, Logical, Conclusion

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

  Damian Kulash

  Support, Trying, Neutrality

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Rights, Goal

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, War, Thinking

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.

  Eve Ensler

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV

  Tom Lehrer

  Mom, Long, Waiting

  Song: So Long, Mom

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• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  Eyvind Kang

  Song, Creativity, Sacrifice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Moving, Parent

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Moving, Nsa

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Heart, Class, Political

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