700 Quotes About Activism

  • Author Jake Lehman
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    What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their community through arts and music, and other forms of outreach.

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  • Author Lisa Murray
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    There's not the same activism as there was before, and I think there needs to be more of that.

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  • Author Pankaj Mishra
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    As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

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  • Author Rebecca MacKinnon
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    Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

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  • Author Dixon Osburn
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    There are many buses ahead of us yet. As we continue to confront inequality and segregation in our country, we still have the stellar example of Rosa Parks' gracious activism to guide and inspire us.

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  • Author John Pike
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    They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.

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  • Author Jose Andres Puerta
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    One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.

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  • Author John Ryding
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    This increasing activism by the Justice Department seems to be applying a model of competition that applied to 19th-century America, rather than 21st-Century America.

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