Activism Quotes

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.

Philanthropy is activism.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

All activism is fake activism.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

We won't get fooled again!

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much.