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Activist Quotes

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

Authors on Activist Quotes: Rush Limbaugh Michael Jackson Kanye West Cody Wilson Al Sharpton Joan Blades Tommy Chong Margaret Atwood Yara Shahidi Michael Moore Mal Fletcher Craig Reucassel Alain Robert Joe Biden Ric O'Barry Peter Carey Katy Perry Yoko Ono Michael Pollan Larry Kramer Bill de Blasio Charb John Cusack Shirin Ebadi Ela Bhatt Frank Borman Rachel Weisz Louie Psihoyos Iman Abdulmajid Billy Bragg Charlie Crist Martin Burns Soleil Moon Frye
2.
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.
Tommy Chong

3.
My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.
Michael Jackson

4.
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
Charb

5.
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
Craig Reucassel

6.
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
Bill de Blasio

7.
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.
Lierre Keith

8.
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.
Yara Shahidi

9.
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
Yoko Ono

10.
Statistics in the hands of activists have power.
Ela Bhatt

11.
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.
John Cusack

12.
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.
Rush Limbaugh

13.
If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.
Ric O'Barry

14.
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
Joan Blades

15.
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
Peter Carey

16.
Astronauts: space activists.
Frank Borman

17.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton

18.
To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.
Louie Psihoyos

19.
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
Billy Bragg

20.
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.
Kanye West

21.
I see myself as a climber and an activist.
Alain Robert

22.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
Margaret Atwood

23.
People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
Mal Fletcher

24.
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.
Michael Moore

25.
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.
Shirin Ebadi

26.
I was not an activist.
Joe Biden

27.
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.
Rachel Weisz

28.
I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.
Katy Perry

29.
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer

30.
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.
Michael Pollan

31.
I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.
Charlie Crist

32.
We can all become activists and raise questions.
Soleil Moon Frye

33.
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.
Emily Raboteau

34.
I want to be an activist professor.
Tariq Ramadan

35.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
Bruce Jenner

36.
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
Iman Abdulmajid

37.
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
Martin Burns

38.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
Christine Quinn

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

40.
Families are incubators for citizen activists.
Ralph Nader

41.
I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!
Arundhati Roy

42.
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.
Kate Clinton

43.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
Merritt Wever

44.
I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."
Cody Wilson

45.
The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.
Rush Limbaugh

46.
I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
Kevin Sessums