Social Activism Quotes

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.