700 Quotes About Activism

You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand...

The day Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced that he was going to do everything he could to repeal the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood, [...] we saw a 900% increase in requests for appointments to get IUDs, a form of birth control that lasts for several years. Women wanted to make sure their birth control would outlast the [new] Administration.

I see in activism a kind of futility. The real power is in doing.

For all of the pedestals MLK is now put on, far above the reach of ordinary black Americans, Martin was in his life viewed as the most dangerous man in America.

I'll never forget. I'll never give up. I'll never be quiet.I promise.

We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did.

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause.Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while theangels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something tofight for that may— justmay— win out.

It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what you hope to accomplish is new. Current activism is almost always linked to the history of revolution worldwide, and Americans have a special connection to this legacy because our nation was born out of the struggle against tyranny.

We are our own asteroid. Our consumption of fossil fuels has released--is releasing--a store of carbon into the atmosphere that has been accumulating for hundreds of millions of years. Corals, plankton, predators: everything in the ocean is screaming at us to stop. If we don't listen and take action right now, we could be witnesses to the death of most life on earth. We will be the cause of that death... We will have erased ourselves in a blink of geologic time.