Activist Quotes

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Astronauts: space activists.

To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

I was not an activist.

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.

I want to be an activist professor.