122 Activist Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Anger About Shaking Around Fist Done Getting Being Your Standing Activist Things

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Life You Natural Become Live Must Going Natural Life Activist

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else. Coretta Scott King

Rights Human Being Sometimes Thought Leader Own Rich Human Rights Else Everyone Everyone Else Way Complex Would Civil Civil Rights Three-Dimensional My Own Like Identified Also Am Human Being Experiences Much Unique Activist

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do. Corin Tucker

People World Take For Granted Big Whatever Think Say Musician Able Something Take Feel Over Most Deal Always Big Deal Been Years Privileged American Want Really Granted Activist Now

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government. Dalton McGuinty

Government Progressive Tried Lead Activist

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist. David Oyelowo

Work Great Character Me Rights Son Mother Amazing Wife Radical Incredibly Civil Civil Rights Exciting Because His Oprah Oprah Winfrey Forest June Role Get Again Script Activist Play Butler Start Phenomenal

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well. Dikembe Mutombo

Doctor Become Think Administrator More Glad Well Because Am Campaign Than Did Any Psychiatrist CEO Activist

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe. Ed Harris

People Strong Feelings Believe Say Strong Feelings Per About Naive Got Jump Celebrities Being Activist Right Things

I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore. I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role. Elizabeth Warren

Government Time Best Me People Problem Thought Think Too Worried Markets Those More True Supported Like Because Felt Were Lot Role Anymore Whether Republican Strain Who Activist Played

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. Eric Holder

Job General Attorney Attorney General Doing His Any Who Activist Her

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves. Eve Ensler

Life Work People Would Entire Entire Life Argue Involved Been Very Done Movements Little Social Themselves Many Activism Activist

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go. Fred Eychaner

You Experience Am Go Where Social Activist Basic Need

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can. George Takei

Me Gift Try Seriously Late Late Teens Teens Positively Given Take Since Access Been Very Use Activist Media

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it. Gloria Reuben

Me Country Pandemic Latino About Horrifying Had No-One Primarily Talking How Issue Been Years American HIV African African-American Communities Many Activist Raging Right Here

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process. Gloria Reuben

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people. Greg Grandin

Woman People Mother Value Young Took Through Up Salvador America Disenfranchised Refugees Children Grew Young Children Central Central America El Salvador Social Midwife Teaching Standing Standing Up Swept Activist Her Cared Violence

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not. Hari Nef

Saying Myself Me Regret Political Space Radical Cornered Saw Kind Some Had Taking Participation Industry Because Without Political Agenda Up Which Justify Agenda Who Activist Ever Thing

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. Holly Near

Best Good Me You Important Those Musician Entertainer Delicate Know Singer How Been Lines Walked Activist Thinker

I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues. Jeff Fisher

Politician Head Head Coach Issues Expert Coach Activist Societal

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. Jeff Goodell

Environmental Health Risks Natural Power Incredible Mark Draw Worst Superhero Determined Attention Hottest Industry His Committed Hulk Movie Natural Gas Public Public Health Use Moment Who Serious Star Activist Gas Nightmare

Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents - not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers' interests. Jeff Sessions

Needs Business Political Big Every Constituents Big Business Up American Senator Represent American Interests Workers Interests Stand Stand Up Groups Activist

Activist Quotes

No more activist quotes