700 Quotes About Activism

86%if the powerful outlaw life; if they ban love, if they constrict liberty with unjust laws . . . then the dandelions must leap up in defiance, in numbers too vast to suppress, with persistence too determined to stop. And why should they wait for violent means to achieve such a goal, when they could embody that world today?

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

If you have a voice, use it. If you have legs, stand up.If you have feet, step up.If you have eachother, fight together.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.

No anti-slavery crusader aimed for a partial solution or settled on a regimen of interim targets. The fight to end slavery was a fight to end 100 percent of slavery for all time. In just that way, we can't settle for partial measures if we are going to win the war for our world. We need to fight for 100 percent sustainability, now.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

Fear, by definition, is the feeling caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or pose a threat.