Activist Quotes - Page 23

• I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all over the world, people don't have the same rights that we do in the United States.

  Jenna Bush

  Girl, Teenager, Kids

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• You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

  Tom McCall

  Cancer, Stress, Love Life

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• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Littles, Assumption

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I see myself as a climber and an activist.

  Alain Robert

  Climbers

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• In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Marine, Army

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

  Charb

  Violence, Needs, Justify

  "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists who essentially would argue that any immigrant from Central America, let's say, who gets here to this country should be allowed to stay because their country is dangerous, their country is poor, and the opportunities for that mom and that kid are much greater here, and why would you send them back?

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Country, Kids

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could.

  Barack Obama

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Office, Political

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  Gary Bauer

  Wicked, News, Republican

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• Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

  John Leo

  School, Government, World

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• My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

  Robin McLeavy

  Mom, Australia, Environmental

  "Q&A – Robin McLeavy (Eva)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. January 2012.

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• Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

  Joel Bakan

  Progressive, Embrace, Resources

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• The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Passion, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

  Tom Morello

  Trying, World, Injustice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

  Cory Doctorow

  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

  Marco Rubio

  Political, Vices, Putin

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

  John Cusack

  Hurt, Keys, Organization

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

  Clay Shirky

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

  Conan O'Brien

  Kkk, Coward, Faces

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• Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.

  Rahul Bose

  Reality, Differences, Fool

  "'Indian Public Is Not Fool' - Rahul Bose" by Joginder Tuteja, www.filmibeat.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Acting, Stories, Reacting

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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Roots

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• On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Exercise, Reality, Hands

  "Wolfgang Tillmans: the lightness of being". Interview with Liz Jobey, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Essence, Issues

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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