700 Quotes About Activism

Even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness.

Better sleepless for justice than soulless in indifference - better sleepless for equality than soulless in apathy - better sleepless for harmony than soulless in complacency.

I have a dream of an akhand prithvi - an undivided earth. I will perish, but the dream will live on through generations to come till it is fully realized.

Light is not an alternative to heat in social movements. It is a necessary partner.

Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.

When we leave people alone with their pain, their alienation becomes the precondition for radicalization.

Local issues have global ramifications.

A commitment to disrupting the state's violence when and where we see it takes feminism outside of the realm of words and theories and makes it a living, breathing set of principles. It reminds us that where we can make interventions, we should and that only work that seeks to shake and unsettle the very foundations of the sexist state is feminist work.

It is a mistake to assume that all we have to do is guarantee the prosecution of the cop who killed Michael Brown. The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into themovements that spontaneously arise.