Activist Quotes

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

~ Christina Engela

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures that resulted in Vandalism. When will morning break for great leaders to stand for what is right Mother Liberia?

~ Henry Johnson Jr

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

~ Thom Hartmann

What I mean when I talk about sovereignty is that we have a different way of being. Those of us who are organising around the idea of sovereignty are not asking for inclusion within the capitalist system. We're not asking for the so-called benefits of a capitalist system, which is always based on exclusions because it is based on privatising what was once communal and shared. We're saying no to being incorporated. We're saying yes to a completely different way of being, to a society based on commonality and plurality, not the fundamentalism of markets, religion, and the gender binary. We're not pushing to get in. Why should we want to enmesh ourselves in an economy and a political system that is driving the planet and our species toward destruction?

~ Sendolo Diamina

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.

~ Leymah Gbowee

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

~ Harvey Milk

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

~ David Wojnarowicz

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

~ Margaret Atwood

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

~ H.l. Mencken

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

What can we learn from women like Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate the blasphemies of fictionalized blues women - especially their outrageous politics of sexuality - and the knowledge that might be gleaned from their lives about the possibilities of transforming gender relations within black communities, perhaps we also could benefit from a look at the artistic contributions of the original blues women.

~ Angela Y. Davis

Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.

~ Eileen Anglin

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

~ Yuri Kochiyama

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

~ Bertolt Brecht

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

~ Dashanne Stokes

16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day.

~ Christina Engela

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri