106 Quotes About Activists

For too long, activists have gone unchallenged as they pressure the government to control broadcast television content, even though their idea of control has very little public support.

People see something on TV they don't like, and some activists yell from the rooftops calling for more government intervention, but that's not what people want,

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.

The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

The county convention gives the Democratic Party activists an opportunity to come together for a common effort. Politics is not a spectator nor an individual sport but, rather, a team effort to build the kind of communities, states and nation that all can be proud to call American. The Democratic Party of Henderson County is dedicated to citizen involvement in the political process.

I've spoken to some lesbian and gay (city) employees and I asked them to be here, but they are concerned that becoming activists will prevent them from getting promotions.

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.