Quotes about Activism
What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
— Jimmy Carter
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.
— Eric Metaxas
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
— Gloria Steinem
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
— Martin Luther
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.
— Martin Luther King III
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
— Max Lucado
There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.
— Catherine Marshall