Activism Quotes - Page 3

• What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

  David Price

  Hippie, Rights, Movement

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• Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

  Stockwell Day

  Challenges, Judicial, Parliamentary System

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• Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

  Blythe Danner

  Profound, Important, Acting

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• Hate is too great a burden to bear.

  Coretta Scott King

  Hater, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎" by Leo Parvis, (p. 54), 2006.

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

  June Jordan

  Attitude, Fighting, Political

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• even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

  Ella Winter

  Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

  Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

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• Activism has always been the driving force for change.

  David Swanson

  Driving, Force, Driving Force

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• Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

  Julian Bond

  Motivational, Monday, History

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• My life is my message.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.8, Oxford University Press

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• There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Caring, Helping Others, People

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• You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

  Medgar Evers

  Death, Men, Ideas

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• Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

  Staceyann Chin

  Life, Laughter, Self

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• There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

  Jim Hightower

  Effort, Campaigns, Levels

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Utopia

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• I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Careers, Justice

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

  Huey Newton

  Hands, Revolution, Rebellion

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

  Christopher Lasch

  Technique, Masters, Owners

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• As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

  George Takei

  Stars, Second Chance, Fans

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• Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

  Alice Walker

  Planets, Living On

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• My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Order, Ministry

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