Activist Quotes - Page 4

• This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

  Tom McCall

  Love Life, Oregon, Terminal Cancer

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• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, Careers, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Gay, Gauges

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• I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

  Joan Blades

  Occasions

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, People, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

  Craig Reucassel

  Funny, Life, Pacifist

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• The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

  Katie Cleary

  Messages, Sometimes, Loud

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others.

  Vivek Shraya

  Voice, Body, Online

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Amy Goodman from Apr 17, 2014

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• If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Goal, Different

  Source: libcom.org

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

  Katy Perry

  Gay, Props

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• As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

  Isaac Hayes

  Past, Rights, Years

  "Isaac Hayes quits South Park after it satirises Scientology" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2006.

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• My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Rights, Years

  "Joely Richardson: the 'lies' about my family in new book" by Joely Richardson, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2011.

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• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  "Anderson Cooper's 'I'm Gay' Announcement Draws Mixed Reactions on Twitter" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 02, 2012.

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• A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Thinking

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

  William Baldwin

  Long, Actors, Possibility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

  Peter Carey

  Littles

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• This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

  Jay Sekulow

  Boys, Sight, America

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• Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied by the eventual disappearance of slavery in all but the fringes of Christian Europe. When Europeans subsequently instituted slavery in the New World, they did so over strenuous papal opposition, a fact that was conveniently 'lost' from history until recently. Finally, the abolition of New World slavery was initiated and achieved by Christian activists.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Rome, Europe

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• The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

  Tony Kushner

  Brother, Husband, Writing

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• The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

  Erick Erickson

  Ghetto, Gay, Rights

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