700 Quotes About Activism

If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, body-ableist.

16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day

Bollywood takes the act in activism very seriously.

My life feels meaningless, and I want it to count for something.

It was many years before I could call myself an activist – someone who resists the wishes of the powerful, someone who stands up on behalf of those who cannot speak: the trees and water and fish and caribou. But now I understand that this struggle is emerging all over the planet. And it is the most important battle we have ever fought.

Earth and animal activists need to join forces against powerful corporations that are destroying both the earth and anymals.

It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale.

I'm used to crazy bitter women making threats. They complain incessantly that my fashion magazines exploit women. Then on the other hand they complain that the alleged exploitation isn't spread around equally among the fat ones and the ethnic ones. I gave up listening to them years ago.

I believe in hope as an act of defiance, or rather as the foundation for an ongoing series of acts of defiance, those acts necessary to bring about some of what we hope for while we live by principle in the meantime. There is no alternative, except surrender. And surrender not only abandons the future, it abandons the soul.