Quotes about Activism

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

We ain't goin' study war no more.