Activist Quotes - Page 13

• I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. And just the sheer power of outreach I think is incredible. It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

  Jessica Valenti

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

  John Darnielle

  Strong, Rights, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.

  Pamela Anderson

  Artist, Icons, People

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Animal, Rights, Cruelty

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Reading, Writing, Luck

  Source: progressive.org

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• I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Years, Wings

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• Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most beloved Buddhist teachers in the West, a rare combination of mystic, poet, scholar, and activist. His luminous presence and the simple, compassionate clarity of his writings have touched countless lives.

  Joanna Macy

  Teacher, Buddhist, Writing

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• I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

  Kanye West

  Facts, Clock, Happens

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• There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

  Bruce Jenner

  Born, Said, Live By

  Glamour Women of the Year 2015 Award Acceptance Speech, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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• It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Nice, Journey

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

  Martin Burns

  Thinking, Long, Wells

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• When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

  Tommy Chong

  Jail, Comedian

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• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  Octavia Spencer

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Rights, Way, Treats

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• The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.

  Garth Kravits

  Girl, Mother, Humble

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• Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all species, I believe. You can't always extract such emphatic hunches and activist stances from a scientific maxim or mathematical axiom.

  Michael Tobias

  Song, Art, Believe

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm always frustrated that most Americans, even activists, know so little about the movements and people that have made America a better country. Yes, we still have plenty of problems and progressives have much more work to do, but we also need to celebrate the progressive pioneers who fought and won many victories that have made America a more democratic, inclusive country.

  Peter Dreier

  Country, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

  Ray McGovern

  Mind, Way, Certain

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

  Samantha Bee

  Fall, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a great book by my friend Nate Garvis called Naked Civics that was very important in my development as someone with a social conscious and that has become, I guess, something of an activist.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Book, Important, Conscious

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that's the best way to go about it. And I do think that it's increasingly being more effective with the work that's being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it's not necessarily coming from one centralized place.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Done, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been a social justice advocate all my life, becoming an activist for women and human rights even in high school, and found ways to weave it in to my later for-profit career. The first film I got involved in was Christy Turlington's "No Woman, No Cry" , which was about the impact of maternal health around the world. It brought this important issue to light, and even though I wasn't in a credit position, I helped her find ways to screen it.

  Julie Smolyansky

  School, Justice, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• People are telling me they're bored with all the attacks on Trump, meaning they were not effective. They weren't working. They weren't dispiriting people. They weren't, because Trump's fighting back. The Republicans never did, and the activists and the protesters are so over the top on everything, they're actually boring people, and they're converting people into Trump supporters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fighting, People, Bored

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're seeing the sort of liberal phenomenon of activists that are speaking out. And they have every right to do so. I think we need to respect that in this country. It's just part of the democratic process.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Thinking, Democratic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.

  David Weigel

  Racism, Political, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

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