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I was not an activist.
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
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I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
Ellen DeGeneres
Rights
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
Work
You
Yourself
Single
Whatever
Think
Consider
Back
Give
Ongoing
Individual
Part
Importance
Because
Single Individual
Doing
Historical
Precisely
May
Achieved
Movement
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
Change
World
Opportunity
Every
Change The World
Minute
Potential
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I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.
Glennon Doyle Melton
God
Day
Me
World
Mother
End Of The Day
Wife
Writer
Take
No-One
Am
Leave
Came
Friend
End
Child
Who
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
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Time
Political
Will
Somehow
Arise
Taken
Tension
Between
Involves
Inevitably
Issues
Survive
Contributions
Current
Certain
Requirement
Activist
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Position
People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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People
Because
Around
Goes
Going
Shouting
Activist
I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.
Megan Rapinoe
Good
You
World
Better
Try
Responsibility
Whatever
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Everybody
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Athlete
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Accountant
Whether
Use
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Activist
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Basically
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
Time
Me
Put
Comedian
Until
Up
Jail
Just
Turned
Activist
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran
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