700 Quotes About Activism

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

From the comfort of our own homes its hard to understand the complexities of something like poverty and homelessness.

Our intellectual habit is to find the One Cause, our scientific programming is to measure it, and our political gearing is to attack it. When the One Cause is global, we cross our fingers and hand over responsibility and power to distant global institutions. They'll take care of it. We hope. But too often, blaming climate change means not doing anything at all.

To guard your boundaries within boundaries is the patriotism and angelic duty, but beyond your boundaries; it is spying, and called the breach of rules and devilish activism.

Many social justice activists--many feminists--continue to work against one form of oppression while feeding the flames of another, without noticing that the blow torch behind the flames must be tuned off before we can have any hope of putting out the resultant fires.

Political issues are too serious to be left only to politicians.

We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.

I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love.""And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice.""At base, we spend years studying the same thing.

To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally important and interdependent.