700 Quotes About Activism

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Adopt A Neighborhood (The Sonnet)Adopt a neighborhood,Make their problems your own.This is the only road to life,Society’s hope is you alone.Charity, security and world peace,All these are cosmetic theory.When you learn to live as human,You'll see their actual foolery.When our voices combine,All noise turns melody of heavens.Joy is amplified a hundred times,We lose sense of all our burdens.Diversity and progress will come alright,Once you perceive beyond your selfish sight.

You can't tiptoe toward justice. You can't walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone's home. Justice is a door that, when closed, must be kicked in.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

My friend says to me:But what can we do? Already giving up.To be aware is already something,I say. Consciousness rarelyleaves us unmoved. Or unmoving.And so it is with this revelationof what has been happeningto our children, all of them,and especially to our boys.The beast in so-calledcivilized manis more lethal, sinister,grotesque and cunningthan I would have believed:And what is it, anyhow, this beast?How does it manifestin every age to plague our republicfrom shadowsit projectsas light?

Service is all about compassion and healing. Activism is all about glorifying the wounds and keeping them unhealed.

Why there is so much violence and suffering in the world? This question burns in the hearts of all kind and peace loving people. But most people satisfy themselves with the readymade answers given by opinion makers, social activists, Karma theorists and so on. Prince Siddhartha Gautama went deeper to find answers and found the absolute truth.