Activism Quotes - Page 7

• Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, People, Special

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Suicidal, Self

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• He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Peace, Paris, Special

  Song: He Went To Paris, 1973

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

  Alanis Morissette

  Peace, Grease, Tea

  Song: So Pure, Album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998

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• Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Justice, Special

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• Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

  Tom Paxton

  Peace, Special, Potatoes

  Song: Don't Slay That Potato, Album: One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters, 1985

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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Joints, Action, Mistrust

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Tired, Our World, Cynical

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Art, Class, Fiction

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• It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

  Lillian Hellman

  Believe, Fighting, Pay

  Lillian Hellman (1942). “Four plays”

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• Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Survival, World, Cop

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.

  Ian Svenonius

  Art, America, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.

  Huey Newton

  Military, War, Gun

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• I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Add, Moral

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Hate, Gay

  Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• [On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in very narrow, individual, kind of Freudian terms, but seeing them in a much broader, societal way that was going to deepen and enrich my talent.

  Jane Fonda

  Feminism, Acting, Way

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Brother, Rich Or Poor, People

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• One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Struggle, Monkeys, Six

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.40, Vintage

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• Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

  Anita Roddick

  Differences, Making A Difference, Feels

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

  Kathy Reichs

  Able, Outrage

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• Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Moving, Giving, Inspire

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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