Activism Quotes

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
Jimmy Carter

Working, Energy, President

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia

Women, History, Political

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
Bono

Work, Hope, Enough

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch

Left, Master, Formerly

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Wynton Marsalis

Another, King, Modern

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan

Attitude, Yourself, Enemy

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove

Whatever, Word, Liberal

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

Work, May, Else

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone

Political, Perfect, Create

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
Stockwell Day

Challenge, System, Simply

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli

Yourself, Struggle, Order

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Try, Write, Personal

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Al Sharpton

Social, Order, Involved

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
Margot Kidder

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
Paul Farmer

Parents, Involved, Causes

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita Roddick

Big, Social, Support

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

Art, Places, Sharp

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
Scott Thompson

Saying, Person, Laugh

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.
Alicia Silverstone

Family, Career, Attention

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
Norman Lear

Marriage, Strong, Career

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook

Marriage, Control, America

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
Sally Kirkland

Revolution, York, Sexual

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Jim Hightower

Success, Finance, Everything

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
George Takei

After, Star, Second

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
Michael Kinsley

Equality, Fair, Equal

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.
Michael Kinsley

Against, Claim, Judicial

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
Michael Kinsley

Another, Year, Stay

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.
Mark Mobius

Become, Wrong, Company

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
David E. Price

Experience, Study, Both

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
Blythe Danner

Important, Acting, Maybe

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