quotes about Activism
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
-- Alice Walker -
Activism has been very productive in our society.
-- Anthony S. FauciSource : "U.S. Rep Hooted Off AIDS Stage" by Jordan Lite, www.wired.com. July 9, 2002.
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When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
-- Camille Paglia -
living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
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Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
-- Daryl HannahSource : "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.
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Philanthropy is activism.
-- Eli BroadSource : "Cause/Effect". Interview with David Bohnett, www.latimes.com. September 16, 2014.
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Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.
-- Emiliano Salinas -
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
-- Ernest Istook -
Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.
-- Julia Bacha -
Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.
-- Kathy Reichs -
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My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.
-- Kiran Bedi -
While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
-- Martin Sheen -
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.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
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Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.
-- Michael Kinsley -
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
-- Sally Kirkland -
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
-- Sojourner Truth -
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Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
-- Stockwell Day -
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
-- Tommy Chong -
All activism is fake activism.
-- Cody WilsonSource : Source: motherboard.vice.com
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Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.
-- Mal Fletcher -
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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.
-- Melissa Gira Grant -
Activism has always been the driving force for change.
-- David Swanson -
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
-- Edward BurtynskySource : "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2005.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
-- Fady JoudahSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
-- Scott Thompson