700 Quotes About Activism

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

All of us need to make our voices heard on behalf of reason, knowledge, sanity and wisdom.

When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to put in the envelopes. Today, we get those envelopes and stamps and address books for free. This is so fantastically, hugely different and weird that we haven’t even begun to feel the first tendrils of it.

Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.

Citizenship is not a spectator sport.

War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

Feeling anger is necessary; it’s what we do with anger that will make or break us.

Pain makes people warriors, you just have to hurt enough!