Activist Quotes

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

Care, Political, Human

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

Dirty, Says, River

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, Yourself, Single

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
Michael J. Fox

Dad, Husband, Student

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
Paul Ryan

Best, Government, Society

I was not an activist.
Joe Biden

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono

Work, Through, Wish

Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
Beth Ditto

Friends, Find, Perfect

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Susan Sarandon

Strong, Two, Acting

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder

Hope, Strong, Live

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.
J. C. Watts

Today, Job, Down

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
Karl Rove

Justice, Liberal, Wants

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
Jodi Picoult

Love, Big, Knowing

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Ron Wyden

Legal, Judge, Hard

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner

Good, Husband, Friend

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner

Marriage, Down, While

I'm not an activist.
Werner Herzog

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton

Life, Done, Before

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

Health, Power, Moment

I'm not a gay rights activist.
ASAP Rocky

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
Sandra Lee

Marriage, Strength, Equality

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?
Ai Weiwei

Art, Movies, Political

I see myself as a climber and an activist.
Alain Robert

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Jasmine Guy

Whether, Quality, Community

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

Work, Time, Political

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel

Society, Someone, Act

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
David Duke

Rights, Call, White

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Michael N. Castle

Great, Famous, Struggle

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
Rachel Maddow

Care, Him, Strange

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, Amazing

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