Activism Quotes - Page 18

• Love is hate
  War is Peace
  No is Yes
  And we're all free.

  Tracy Chapman

  Peace, Hate, War

  Song: Why?, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988

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• I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

  Thao Nguyen

  Wise, Thinking, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.

  Adam Braver

  Rights, People, Effort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.

  Dorothy Stang

  People, Environmental, World

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• Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

  Michael Shermer

  Environmental, Flip, Global Warming

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.36, Henry Holt and Company

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• Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Women, Fake, Towels

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• When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Differences, Making A Difference

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• We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

  Randall Robinson

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Organization, Activist

  Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, www.believermag.com. March 2014.

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• I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Art, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Despair, Noise

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• Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Scary, Ignorant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

  Alex Steffen

  Energy, Climate, Generations

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• The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Princess, Writing

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• art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Advocacy, Art Is

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.72, Penguin

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• Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Interesting, Police

  "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

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• Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

  John Baldoni

  Leadership, Goal, Outcomes

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• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Success, Winning, Giving

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, Children, Giving

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• Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Heart, Challenges, Problem

  "Small Change" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  Al Gore

  Past, Civilization, Done

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• Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Dark, Journey, Stores

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Keys

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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