Activist Quotes - Page 7

• Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

  Merritt Wever

  Thinking, Enough, I Can

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• When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

  Jonah Goldberg

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Waiting, Leap

  Song: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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• It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

  David Limbaugh

  Flames, Accountability, Lines

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• I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to show people that if some activists, if some revolutionaries, if some street organizers from the hood can come together and put together a preliminary program to give health care to independent artists.

  Immortal Technique

  Independent, Artist, People

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.

  Ruth Smeeth

  Media, Momentum, Conspiracy

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.

  Joshua Wong

  Past, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Parent, Movement

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• My passion for others and my experience as an actor and citizen of the world has naturally shaped me into a social and political activist who finds fulfillment from their work with meaningful organizations.

  Sufe Bradshaw

  Meaningful, Passion, Organization

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• Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Voice, Add

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

  Li Bingbing

  Perseverance, Years, People

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• 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, Circles, Luck

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. May 9, 2011.

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• I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have seen a certain imbalance in the relationship between the judiciary, the parliament and the government. The Supreme Court behaved in an activist way. We have to debate the degree to which such Supreme Court activism is appropriate.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Government, Proud, Imbalance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be really wonderful and we're all navigating this reality to the best of our abilities. But, again, I wanted to take a step back and look at the broader context.

  Astra Taylor

  Reality, Decision, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Human Rights, Freedom Of Expression

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• And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

  Ray McGovern

  Apathy, Pay, Citizenship

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Hero, School

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• Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him.

  Jeff Sessions

  Community, Borders, Mexico

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• I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Community, Soul

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Use, Different, Bathroom

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Gay, Rights, Years

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• Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Judging, Groups

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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

  Feminism, Groups, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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