Activism Quotes - Page 2

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.

Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washington” is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers “Stop Duane Thomas!