Activist Quotes - Page 11

• As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

  Serj Tankian

  Long, People, Vision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

  Temple Grandin

  Reform, Steel, Heat

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naïveté belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.

  Payam Akhavan

  War, Human Rights, Sometimes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's equally important for activists to hold a more positive vision of what's right with their country: what's going well, and what they'd like to grow or see more of. I also like to encourage activists to take some time each day to sit silently or take a walk in nature as a way to be in touch with their inner wisdom and peace - and to remember why they are on this path in the first place.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

  Saul Williams

  Soul, Steps, Spirit

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• As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, People, Needs

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

  Christine Quinn

  Done, Fists, Standing

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• In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Party, Capitalist Economy, Political

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Energy, Alternatives, Dedicated

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, Humility, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• We all have a purpose in life and I believe this being an activist is mine, so that's one of my driving forces. The second driving force is knowing that I'm actually making a difference to people's lives. Knowing that women are saying that their young daughters are looking up to me now, knowing that I've helped someone to not commit suicide. Getting messages like that are very powerful.

  Harnaam Kaur

  Daughter, Suicide, Powerful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• There are so many people that don't spend enough time loving themselves and there are so many people that go through so many difficulties. I wanted to make a brand Treasures Within where people can actually stand up and talk - I've given a platform to other people to voice their opinions. With my brand, I go to different places like youth centres and colleges to promote body confidence. I'm an anti-bullying activist, so I talk about that as well and I like to hold events like this where I'm able to promote such amazing things.

  Harnaam Kaur

  College, People, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

  Serj Tankian

  Musician, Want, Satisfaction

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.

  Masha Gessen

  Water, Political, Prison

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• The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Hands, Ideas, Choices

  Source: kalamu.com

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• The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

  Morton Blackwell

  Effectiveness, Numbers, Political

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• In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Country, Religious, Jesus

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

  Patch Adams

  Doctors, People, Justice

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• Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue that needs to be addressed is how to get people to see that there is indeed a grand narrative which just happens to be true.

  Michael Yates

  Struggle, Issues, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Community, Police

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.

  Emily Raboteau

  Country, Perspective, Organized Religion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Partisans, Left

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians.

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, America, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

  Bill Ayers

  Trying, Figures, Thread

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

  Bill de Blasio

  People, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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