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"...LA)n activist is someone who
cannot help but fight for something.
That person is not usually motivated
by a need for power or money or
fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad
by some injustice, some cruelty, some
unfairness, so much so that he or she
is compelled by some internal moral
engine to act to make it better."
— Eve Ensler,
Foreword, My Name is Jody Williams
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional
marriage in America.
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because that's where
you '11 find the truth
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don't give you work, ask
for bread. If they do not
give you work or bread,
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"We can begin by doing small things
at the local level, like planting
community gardens or looldng out
for our neighbors. That is how
change takes place in living systems,
not from above but from within,
from many local actions occurring
simultaneously. "
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We've got activists all across the country like the
members of the Million Mom March organization,
some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone
banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial
boards.
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"l AM AN ACTIVIST. I HAVE A REALLY BIG
PULPIT WITH MY FICTION AND I LOVE KNOWING
THAT I CAN MAKE PEOPLE THINK."
JODI PICOULT
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IT'S FUNNY
HOW MOST
ACTIVISTS ARE
PACIFISTS.
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The Activist
It starts like an itch. Something happens in our lives
that causes us to question what we know. We open
Our eyes and seek the The more we uncover the
hungrier we are for understanding. But the world isn'!
perfect and there's a lot of pain and deception. We
have the buming desire to do more. We read, a lot,
We start protesting. Our family labels us as too
negative, our friends start to pull away, our spouses
reject us. We are labeled as hippies, anarchists, ang
kids, conspiracy theorists and terrorists. We are
beaten by police and mocked by the news. Yet, we
flave become obsessed with spreading the truth. It
a very solitary journey.
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"l HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG COMMUNITY
ACTIVIST AND FRANKLY DID NOT DREAM OF
BEING IN PUBLIC OFFICE."
KAREN BASS
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"You may not control all the events tbat
happen to you, but you can decide not to be
reduced by them."
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Alvvays go too far,
because that's where
you '11 find the truth
—Albert Camus
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"MOST ACTIVISM IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY US
ORDINARY PEOPLE."
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All in all this is a difficult
political struggle which will go
on for years, in which our
people won't die anymore; 11m
not sure how much we will be
able to win, but 11m certain
that we won't loose anything
that we have now.
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Evil only succeeds
when good
people do nothing.
- Maran Luther Kng, Jr.
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ACTIVISM
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to
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I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. Votes: 4

David Duke
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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. Votes: 4

Ross Perot
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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. Votes: 4

Angela Davis
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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. Votes: 4

Angela Davis
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I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy. Votes: 4

Bram Cohen
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An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. Votes: 4

Joanne Woodward
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist. Votes: 3

Ali MacGraw
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I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. Votes: 3

Jasmine Guy
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Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story Votes: 3

Candace Gingrich-Jones
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Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. Votes: 3

Daryl Hannah
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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. Votes: 3

Stockwell Day
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. Votes: 3

Studs Terkel
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It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. Votes: 3

Craig Reucassel
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I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. Votes: 3

Todd Akin
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Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. Votes: 3

Paul Ryan
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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. Votes: 3

Jasmine Guy
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. Votes: 3

Lance Loud
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. Votes: 3

Ian Mckellen
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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. Votes: 3

Paul Farmer
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President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. Votes: 3

Bill Shuster
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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. Votes: 3

Michael N. Castle
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In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. Votes: 3

Lawrence Lessig
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Activist judges and local officials in some parts of the country are not letting up in their efforts to redefine marriage for the rest of America-and neither should defenders of traditional marriage flag in their efforts. Votes: 3

George W. Bush
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. Votes: 3

Jeremy Rifkin
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist." Votes: 3

Lauryn Hill
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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. Votes: 3

Norman Lear
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Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic. Votes: 3

Robert Novak
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For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention. Votes: 3

Riane Eisler
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On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Tillmans
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I'm not a gay rights activist. Votes: 1

ASAP Rocky
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I'm an artist, I'm not an activist. Votes: 1

Shirin Neshat
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I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. Votes: 1

Bill de Blasio
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you. Votes: 1

Yuri Kochiyama
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I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do. Votes: 1

James Cromwell
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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. Votes: 1

Tommy Chong
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Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am. Votes: 1

Chaz Bono
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John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. Votes: 1

Russell Banks
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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. Votes: 1

Dikembe Mutombo
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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. Votes: 1

Ellen DeGeneres
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I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. Votes: 1

Ken Buck
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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. Votes: 1

Eddie Vedder
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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? Votes: 1

Ai Weiwei
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When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks. Votes: 1

Deborah Ellis
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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. Votes: 1

Beth Ditto
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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. Votes: 1

Jeff Goodell
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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. Votes: 1

Gloria Reuben
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. Votes: 1

Adam McKay
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I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything from my weight to my fertility was held up for discussion. And then I was the person that could garner some kind of positive outcome, by taking on the role of vice chairman of the British Fashion Council and becoming an activist of body image. Votes: 1

Erin O'Connor
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope. Votes: 1

Talib Kweli
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I was not an activist. Votes: 0

Joe Biden
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I've become an animal rights activist. Votes: 0

Steve Wynn
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I wasn't a [gay] activist, really... Votes: 0

Kevin Sessums
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I want to be an activist professor. Votes: 0

Tariq Ramadan
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If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist. Votes: 0

Ric O'Barry
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A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist. Votes: 0

Roderick T. Long
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I see myself as a climber and an activist. Votes: 0

Alain Robert
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist. Votes: 0

Carlos Delgado
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I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist. Votes: 0

Steve-O
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This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. Votes: 0

Tom McCall
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To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist. Votes: 0

Louie Psihoyos
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I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist." Votes: 0

Cody Wilson
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I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. Votes: 0

Michael Moore
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You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this. Votes: 0

Ric O'Barry
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You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. Votes: 0

Michael Pollan
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My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. Votes: 0

Nicola Sturgeon
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I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. Votes: 0

Joan Blades
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If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis. Votes: 0

Iman Abdulmajid
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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. Votes: 0

Peter Carey
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Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. Votes: 0

Douglas Brinkley
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. Votes: 0

William Baldwin
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Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. Votes: 0

Eric Holder
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I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you. Votes: 0

Sinbad
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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means. Votes: 0

Jill Stein
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I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8. Votes: 0

Katy Perry
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The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. Votes: 0

Eric Holder
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If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, Votes: 0

Eric Holder
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Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. Votes: 0

John Leo
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Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. Votes: 0

Laura Schlessinger
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Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh
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I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist. Votes: 0

Sharon Gannon
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I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. Votes: 0

Sandra Lee
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. Votes: 0

Karen Bass
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I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think. Votes: 0

Martin Burns
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As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill. Votes: 0

Marcus Samuelsson
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I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. Votes: 0

Johann Lamont
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood
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I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. Votes: 0

Robert Paul Weston
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Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. Votes: 0

Christine Quinn
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My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. Votes: 0

Joely Richardson
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Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything. Votes: 0

Merritt Wever
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It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan. Votes: 0

Rebecca MacKinnon
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Are you a murderer?""That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder? Votes: 0

Tammy Blackwell
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader... Votes: 0

Aberjhani
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. Votes: 0

Dolores Huerta
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I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. Votes: 0

Russell Means
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I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it. Votes: 0

Allan Nairn
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I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists. Votes: 0

Pearl Cleage
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People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!! Votes: 0

Bill Maher
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As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. Votes: 0

Isaac Hayes
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Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. Votes: 0

Jessica Valenti
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I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story. Votes: 0

Roger Ross Williams
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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. Votes: 0

Michael J. Fox
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[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end. Votes: 0

Bill Ayers
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I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known. Votes: 0

Al Sharpton
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. Votes: 0

Karl Rove
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When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio
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I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. Votes: 0

Patch Adams
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. Votes: 0

Oscar Isaac
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. Votes: 0

Yoko Ono
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I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take. Votes: 0

John Cusack
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I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. Votes: 0

Jose Antonio Vargas
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. Votes: 0

Karen Bass
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When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. Votes: 0

Jehane Noujaim
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult
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My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late 60s and 70s, and I guess Ive inherited that awareness from her. Votes: 0

Robin McLeavy
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When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born. Votes: 0

Andrew Harvey
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I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is. Votes: 0

Mark Thomas
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932) Votes: 0

Andrew Young
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Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. Votes: 0

Lierre Keith
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There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by. Votes: 0

Bruce Jenner
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My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. Votes: 0

Robin McLeavy
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I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention. Votes: 0

Patch Adams
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. Votes: 0

Joan Baez
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Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. Votes: 0

Robert Draper
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The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Taylor
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I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda? Votes: 0

Moby
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There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky
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In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation. Votes: 0

David Duke
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I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist. Votes: 0

Kristin Kreuk
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Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms. Votes: 0

Dick Durbin
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I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'. Votes: 0

Ruth Smeeth
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A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. Votes: 0

Sam Ervin
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Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years. Votes: 0

Terry Teachout
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My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone. Votes: 0

Pauley Perrette
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community. Votes: 0

Nate Parker
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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. Votes: 0

Studs Terkel
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Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist. Votes: 0

Daniel Gardner
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American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. Votes: 0

Frederick Douglass
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You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way. Votes: 0

Ray McGovern
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I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works. Votes: 0

Michael Moore
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I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician. Votes: 0

Serj Tankian
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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. Votes: 0

Eve Ensler
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I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism. Votes: 0

Assata Shakur
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As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools. Votes: 0

Eli Broad
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My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then. Votes: 0

Malaak Shabazz
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I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in. Votes: 0

Wangechi Mutu
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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. Votes: 0

Ron Wyden
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There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist. Votes: 0

Tom Morello
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The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see. Votes: 0

Bill Ayers
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I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick
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I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist. Votes: 0

Bonnie Raitt
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I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also. Votes: 0

Kanye West
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No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty. Votes: 0

Ron Paul
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Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am. Votes: 0

Chaz Bono
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That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it. Votes: 0

Iman Abdulmajid
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The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Lesser
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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. Votes: 0

Susan Sarandon
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My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with. Votes: 0

Burning Spear
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Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist Votes: 0

Winona LaDuke
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If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian. Votes: 0

John Oliver
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela
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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views. Votes: 0

Rick Bass
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet. Votes: 0

Paul Watson
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Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it. Votes: 0

Jello Biafra
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I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues. Votes: 0

Bill Ayers
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In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people. Votes: 0

Jim Crace
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I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought. Votes: 0

Saul Williams
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Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love. Votes: 0

Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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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 Votes: 0

Ed Harris
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When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action. Votes: 0

Mel White
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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. Votes: 0

Ed Harris
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For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored. Votes: 0

Charles Duhigg
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Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him. Votes: 0

Jeff Sessions
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I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin. Votes: 0

Jello Biafra
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Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you. Votes: 0

Bill Ayers
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world. Votes: 0

Basmah bint Saud
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My passion for others and my experience as an actor and citizen of the world has naturally shaped me into a social and political activist who finds fulfillment from their work with meaningful organizations. Votes: 0

Sufe Bradshaw
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It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who. Votes: 0

John Cusack
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I'm an animal activist. Many people say that I'm a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won't wear fur. But I'm not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur. Votes: 0

Paris Hilton
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And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay? Votes: 0

Ray McGovern
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I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist. Votes: 0

Bo Burnham
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I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and voices to protest or activists online who are constantly engaging and educating others. Votes: 0

Vivek Shraya
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I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say is that a lot of the designers I wear are gay and I like their clothes.

ASAP Rocky
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I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

Martin Sheen
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I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

Vivian Gornick
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I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

Assata Shakur
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Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

Nat Hentoff
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I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

Kanye West
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One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

Jose Antonio Vargas
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As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

Patrick Califia
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Making my work more visual is something I am increasingly excited about. I am hopeful that it will broaden access to some of the ideas being engaged in activist and scholarly communities of which I am part.

Dean Spade
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Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

Staceyann Chin
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We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.

Michelle Rodriguez
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We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

Derrick Jensen
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I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

Lizz Winstead
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I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

Harvey Milk
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I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

Lucy R. Lippard
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed - for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

Barney Frank
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I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy's lyrics were fearless, and I'm very grateful for all the risks that she took.

Steven Morrissey
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The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

Susan Sarandon
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I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

Bonnie Raitt
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Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.

Jeb Bush
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There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.

Assata Shakur
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

Gloria Steinem
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I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I wasn't a joiner. You know, I love the people I love. I didn't care whether - they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist, you know, and anything but a racist.

Ruby Dee
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For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

James Vance
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Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has covered three decades and seen many changes in gay rights, but Gerson never viewed himself as an activist.

Jennifer Lopez
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Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

Bill Ayers
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If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.

Noam Chomsky
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I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

Barack Obama
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The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

Hillary Clinton
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The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some right wing activist who are doing their best to cast aspersions on his character and to question his religion and citizenship.

Jimmy Carter
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I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

John Trudell
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Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

Jay Carney
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Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.

George W. Bush
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I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

Lena Dunham
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There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

Jay Roach
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Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.

Jon Stewart
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Environmental activist (28 quotes)

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. Votes: 3 Robin McLeavy

Musician activist (20 quotes)

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician. Votes: 1 Serj Tankian


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