Activist Quotes - Page 8

• I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Gay, Ideas, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

  Shane Barbi

  Fighting, Animal, Rights

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• We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.

  Ray McGovern

  Responsibility, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, Judging, Nominations

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Luther, Ends

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Children, School

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Years, Profound, Chic

  Source: time.com

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• Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.

  Jeb Bush

  Years, People, Leader

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• As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can intensely influence the directions of advocacy have increasingly come to the surface for trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  White, Way, Influence

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Bases, Active, Ifs

  Source: time.com

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• My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

  Pauley Perrette

  Rights, Civil Rights, Life Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.

  Joel Bakan

  Business, Thinking, Government

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• Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Perfect

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

  Duncan Green

  People, Understanding, Tapping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

  Allan Nairn

  Space, Priorities, Administration

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Heart, Character, Love Is

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• I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

  Allan Nairn

  Real, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Rights, Media, People

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Gay, Names, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Those people who espouse conservatism that causes them to be under permanent attack by the left gay activists cabal, those people are in need of a protection. They're not doing that because it's fun. They're not taking that stand because it's fun, they're taking that stand because that's what they believe in, and they need to have somebody standing up for them, and I'm more than happy to do so.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fun, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.

  Kola Boof

  Taken, Men, White

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• There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Feminist, Environmental, Groups

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• We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Character, Decision, Development

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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