Quotes about Activism

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.

Anger is like the white sugar of activist energy; it gives adrenaline in the short term but is debilitating in the long term. Love is the nutrition of the gods.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as to powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.