700 Quotes About Activism

I really admire people in the public eye, who have affluence and celebrity, who give back, who take a stand and take action. When you have been blessed with abundance and a platform and you bring attention to a cause, or do something to help the world, those are the people who inspire me.

Once the world made her an emblem, she lost the luxury of standing for herself. She has never been a champion of the cause, except in the daily life she leads. The cause has sought her out, transposing all her keys.

We need to weigh the risk that revolutionary violence will spin out of control and lead to sadistic mayhem, against the risk that our own complacency with the injustices of the status quo will make us quiet enablers of more subtle but equally unjust forms of violence.

To break another's bones, to take their life, is to forgo wonder: It is to cut off a part of ourselves that we do not yet know. I choose nonviolence because it is moral and strategic.

On the other side of rage awaits the ability to wonder again at the spinning world.

Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope."But I don't want your hope.I don't want you to be hopeful.I want you to panic.I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.And then I want you to act.I want you to act as you would in a crisis.I want you to act as if our house is on fire.Because it is.

An activist produces power and policy change, not mental change. If a person has no record of power or policy change, then that person is not an activist.

...feminism has to be absolutely utopian and unrealistic, far removed form any semblance of the world we're living in now. We have to hope for and envision something before agitating for it, rather than blithely giving up, and accepting the way things are. After all, utopian ideals are as ideological as the political foundations of the world we're currently living in. Above everything, feminism is a constant work in progress. We are all still learning.

On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity?