Activism Quotes - Page 13

• If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Mean, Rights

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• Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

  Paulo Freire

  Reflection, Practice, Requirements

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.30, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nannies, Planning, States

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Photography, Powerful, Believe

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• Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

  Ann Coulter

  Keys, Law, Judicial

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• I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.

  Rainn Wilson

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

  Julia Bacha

  Important, Resistance, Causes

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• When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ignorance

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• The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Past

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• I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

  Bill Gates

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

  Rory Stewart

  Mind, Democracy, Structure

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• Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Life, Needs, Use

  "Revolution for the hell of it".

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fun, Honor, Thrill

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• Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

  Ellen Lupton

  Voice, Space, Diversity

  Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (1996). “Mixing Messages”, p.13, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.

  Emily Oster

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Thinking, Forever, Missing

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• Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Elements, Problem, Bigs

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• Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

  Julia Bacha

  Army, Scare, Opposition

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Trying

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• This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Alchemist, Singing, Investing

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• You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.

  Cary Fowler

  Eye, Diversity, Important

  "One seed at a time, protecting the future of food". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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