700 Quotes About Activism

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need."(The Power of One: Belief.net Interview; July 2005)

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.