Activism Quotes - Page 15

• We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

  Al Gore

  Live For Today, Generations, Alive

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• Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Agitation, Benefits, Publicity

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s speech in Evansville, Indiana (July 7, 1906), as quoted in Michael Wolraich "Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics", July 22, 2014.

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• Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  Eva Cox

  Women, Differences, Feminism

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• The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Jobs, Feet, Today

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• If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy

  Robbie Williams

  Peace, Love Is, Energy

  Song: Let Love Be Your Energy

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• The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating right, and they should be left up to the people to decide.

  Rick Santorum

  Creating, People, Outlaw

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• Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

  William Baldwin

  Careers, Acting, Hobbies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Philanthropy is activism.

  Eli Broad

  Philanthropy

  "Cause/Effect". Interview with David Bohnett, www.latimes.com. September 16, 2014.

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• Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

  Angela Davis

  Practice, Political, Danger

  "Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties". Book edited by Gina Dent, 1992.

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• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Ocean, Sky

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Spiritual, Character

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• It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Fall, Hero

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Sick, Forgiving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Activism has been very productive in our society.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Our Society, Has Beens, Productive

  "U.S. Rep Hooted Off AIDS Stage" by Jordan Lite, www.wired.com. July 9, 2002.

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• There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

  Rosa Parks

  Children, Elderly, Long

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

  Rosa Parks

  White, Being Free, Ease

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• I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, Swim, Special

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• Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

  Daryl Hannah

  Connections, Film, Advocacy

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Order, Issues

  Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

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• Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

  Curtis Jackson

  Peace, Special, Together

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• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Joy, Achievement

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Kings, Gay

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Feminism, Obligation

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.33, Vintage

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• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Order, Political

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.32, Vintage

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