700 Quotes About Activism

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

You have to do to be.

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mats.