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I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. -- David Duke
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. -- Ross Perot
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. -- Angela Davis
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. -- Angela Davis
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy. -- Bram Cohen
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try. -- Joanne Woodward
I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist. -- Ali MacGraw
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. -- Jasmine Guy
Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story -- Candace Gingrich-Jones
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. -- Daryl Hannah
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. -- Stockwell Day
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. -- Studs Terkel
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. -- Craig Bruce
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. -- Todd Akin
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. -- Paul Ryan
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. -- Jasmine Guy
Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. -- Lance Loud
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. -- Ian Mckellen
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
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. -- Bill Shuster
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. -- Michael N. Castle
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. -- Lawrence Lessig
Activist judges and local officials in some parts of the country are not letting up in their efforts to redefine marriage for the rest of America-and neither should defenders of traditional marriage flag in their efforts. -- George W. Bush
The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist." -- Lauryn Hill
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
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic. -- Robert Novak
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention. -- Riane Eisler
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
I'm not a gay rights activist. -- ASAP Rocky
I'm an artist, I'm not an activist. -- Shirin Neshat
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. -- Bill de Blasio
I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you. -- Yuri Kochiyama
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do. -- James Cromwell
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. -- Tommy Chong
Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am. -- Chaz Bono
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. -- Russell Banks
I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well. -- Dikembe Mutombo
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. -- Ken Buck
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. -- Eddie Vedder
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? -- Ai Weiwei
When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks. -- Deborah Ellis
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends. -- Beth Ditto
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. -- Jeff Goodell
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it. -- Gloria Reuben
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. -- Adam McKay
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope. -- Talib Kweli
I was not an activist. -- Joe Biden
I've become an animal rights activist. -- Steve Wynn
I wasn't a [gay] activist, really... -- Kevin Sessums
I want to be an activist professor. -- Tariq Ramadan
A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist. -- Roderick T. Long
I see myself as a climber and an activist. -- Alain Robert
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist. -- Carlos Delgado
I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist. -- Steve-O
This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. -- Tom McCall
To me, youâ??re either an activist or an inactivist. -- Louie Psihoyos
I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist." -- Cody Wilson
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. -- Michael Moore
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. -- Michael Pollan
My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. -- Joan Blades
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis. -- Iman Abdulmajid
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. -- Peter Carey
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. -- Douglas Brinkley
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. -- William Baldwin
Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. -- Eric Holder
I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you. -- Sinbad
[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means. -- Jill Stein
I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8. -- Katy Perry
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. -- Marianne Williamson
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. -- Eric Holder
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, -- Eric Holder
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. -- John Leo
Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. -- Laura Schlessinger
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist. -- Nhat Hanh
I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist. -- Sharon Gannon
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. -- Sandra Lee
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. -- Karen Bass
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think. -- Martin Burns
As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. -- Johann Lamont
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. -- Margaret Atwood
I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. -- Robert Paul Weston
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. -- Christine Quinn
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. -- Joely Richardson
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything. -- Merritt Wever
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Are you a murderer?""That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder? -- Tammy Blackwell
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader... -- Aberjhani
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. -- Dolores Huerta
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. -- Russell Means
I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it. -- Allan Nairn
I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists. -- Pearl Cleage
People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!! -- Bill Maher
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. -- Isaac Hayes
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. -- Jessica Valenti
I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story. -- Roger Ross Williams
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. -- Michael J. Fox
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end. -- Bill Ayers
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known. -- Al Sharpton
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. -- Karl Rove
When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin. -- Marco Rubio
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. -- Patch Adams
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. -- Oscar Isaac
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. -- Yoko Ono
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take. -- John Cusack
I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. -- Karen Bass
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. -- Jehane Noujaim
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. -- Jodi Picoult
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late 60s and 70s, and I guess Ive inherited that awareness from her. -- Robin McLeavy
When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born. -- Andrew Harvey
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is. -- Mark Thomas
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932) -- Andrew Young
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. -- Lierre Keith
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by. -- Bruce Jenner
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. -- Robin McLeavy
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention. -- Patch Adams

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