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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet. -- Alice Walker
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. -- Stockwell Day
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. -- Blythe Danner
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. -- Paul Farmer
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. -- Jim Hightower
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition. -- Julia Bacha
Activism has been very productive in our society. -- Anthony S. Fauci
Activism has always been the driving force for change. -- David Swanson
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet. -- Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet -- Alice Walker
Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. -- Michael Kinsley
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. -- Mother Teresa
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor. -- Sally Kirkland
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet. -- Alice Walker
I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. -- Randall Robinson
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. -- Christopher Lasch
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. -- Ben Edwards
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another. -- Wynton Marsalis
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. -- Paul Wellstone
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -- Dr. Seuss
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. -- David Price
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark. -- Rebecca Solnit
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order. -- Al Sharpton
Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that. -- Matt Bomer
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. -- Tommy Chong
I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere. -- Angelina Jolie
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season. -- George Takei
Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop. -- Bethann Hardison
Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math. -- Rachel Maddow
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. -- Susan Sarandon
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. -- June Jordan
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action. -- Leymah Gbowee
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
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole. -- Thomas Sowell
Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing. -- Andrew Harvey
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it. -- Scott Thompson
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' -- Scott Thompson
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. -- Norman Lear
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive. -- Larry Kramer
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement. -- Carol Tavris
I write-down to speak-up -- M.K. Asante, Jr
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people. -- Patricia Hill Collins
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. -- Ernest Istook
My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be. -- Kiran Bedi
Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems -- Don Rittner
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like. -- Edward Burtynsky
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. -- Anita Roddick
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. -- Talib Kweli
There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other. -- Henry Rollins
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life. -- Radhanath Swami
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice. -- Shepard Fairey
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me. -- Bayard Rustin
Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner. -- Anil Agarwal
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic. -- Conor Oberst
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. -- Michael Kinsley
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind. -- Jimmy Carter
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not. -- Gunter Grass
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off. -- Tawakkol Karman
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world. -- Russell Simmons
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal. -- Mark Mobius
Philanthropy is activism. -- Eli Broad
All activism is fake activism. -- Cody Wilson
My pro-choice activism keeps me busy. -- Margot Kidder
The most effective form of activism is kindness. -- Bryant McGill
Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism. -- Joy Browne
My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective. -- Eric Burdon
From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love. -- Dani Shapiro
Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention. -- Mal Fletcher
Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. -- Rush Limbaugh
No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism. -- Noam Chomsky
Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals. -- John Baldoni
As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change. -- Rhys Ifans
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best -- Ela Bhatt
Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always! -- Miley Cyrus
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. -- Michael Kinsley
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence. -- Daryl Hannah
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. -- Mike McCurry
My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career. -- Alicia Silverstone
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. -- William Baldwin
The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better. -- Glenn Greenwald
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. -- Janine di Giovanni
While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive. -- Martin Sheen
Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory. -- Bill Ayers
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. -- Gloria Steinem
You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society. -- Maya Harris
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. -- Thomas Sowell
Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism. -- Annie Lennox
In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism. -- Chris Kluwe
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. -- Fady Joudah
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. -- Steve Earle
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. -- Camille Paglia
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. -- Noam Chomsky
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting. -- Bob Geldof
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. -- Michael Shermer
Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn. -- Ilana Mercer
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. -- Scott Thompson
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork. -- Thomas Merton
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. -- Philip Yancey
Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism. -- Paulo Freire
I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous. -- Kofi Siriboe
Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point. -- Ann Coulter
Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. -- Gloria Steinem
Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change. -- Neil Young
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. -- Bono
I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive. -- James Mattis
Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism. -- Emily Saliers
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility. -- Ellen Lupton
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. -- Talib Kweli
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. -- Eve Ensler
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. -- Rebecca Solnit

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