Quotes about Activism
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
— Jane Goodall
This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
— Albert Einstein
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
— Amanda Gorman
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
— Lady Gaga
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
— Mary Harris Jones
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
— Elie Wiesel