Activist Quotes - Page 19

• If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

  Amy Goodman

  Wall, Party, Numbers

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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• Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Fighting, Loyal, Yeah

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• My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.

  Paul Hawken

  Song, Heart, Practice

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• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much America was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Hair, Black, Curls

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Mean, Creating, Groups

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ideas, People, Drug

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

  Derrick Jensen

  Integrity, Example, Roles

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.381, Seven Stories Press

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• I feel like I have more in common with conservative people who have activist causes in their hearts and who are interested in electoral politics than I do with somebody who doesn't care, doesn't have any political interests, doesn't know what policy is, and doesn't think any of it matters to them. If you care, we're actually going to have a basis of conversation. We might supplementally get along very well, and that might be complicated and fun in a way that is more constructive than you'd expect.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution of the protests is incredible; the signs are amazing, creative and eye catching. You can really feel the unity in the group, running like a well oiled machine towards the goal of liberating our captive animal friends.

  Camille

  Running, Eye, Animal

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• One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things happen of that nature, some people become immobilized and other people begin to find solutions. And Detroit is the kind of city where we begin to find solutions.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Cities, People, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, America, Tea

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• Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

  Lierre Keith

  Integrity, Tasks, Personal Integrity

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.265, PM Press

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• A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

  Roderick T. Long

  Anarchy, Anarchist, Consistent

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

  Eve Ensler

  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody, we're not even activists. We just leave people alone, figure if everybody has the same morality and the same set of values and is focusing on the same basic human things using God-given human freedom, that things are gonna work out fine. That's what America has demonstrated is true, that's being protested this very day. It's not fine; America's unjust, unfair, and all these things. That's the fight we're in the middle of.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Fighting, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect, you try to heal your inner child. But as an activist, there's the outward, going wide therapy, where you get to realize at a certain point that talking about yourself gets boring. And it's also unhealthy to be so much into yourself. At some point, you have got to be able to look at the issue and say, "It's not about you. It's about a culture, a people, a nation, a family."

  Loung Ung

  Children, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathe, Monk, Vietnamese

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• I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

  Paris Hilton

  Hypocrite, Animal, People

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• You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

  Betty White

  Animal, Thinking, Heartbreaking

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

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  Eddie Vedder

  Strong, Children, Kids

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• The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

  Dana Goldstein

  Strong, School, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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