700 Quotes About Activism

Isn't poverty also workers with insufficient time to live? And places that are all roads and shopping centres; don't they have a poverty of parks and public spaces, a poverty of socialising? Couldn't poverty also be low quality or insufficient education, culture, healthcare, information, stability, rights, and dignity?

How do you photograph injustice? It is the easiest to photograph, for it is as common as the number of people on the earth; each person staggers under its weight.

When charisma and intelligence joined hands with compassion, the result was dangerous to greed, destruction, and cruelty.

If you really want change to happen, if you really want to "help" fat people, you need to understand that shaming an already-shamed population is, well, shameful.

How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?

Who said talking isn’t doing something?’ she says. It’s more productive than silence.

It is when speaking is not safethat we must speak.It is when taking a stand hurtsthat we must stand.Whenever freedom is threatened,we must resist.When forces oppress us,we must persist.And when hope deserts us,we must rest...then pick up the torch againand againand againuntil all are free to do the same.

If one wants to act, the dilemma is how and where; there is no "when?" with time running out, the time is obviously now.

What you buy doesn't make you cool, it makes you the opposite. Stop buying stuff just to have more stuff. Most of us have enough of everything already. Let's care for what we've got, instead, and dispose of our disposable society.