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Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws. -- Nancy Ruth
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control. -- Barton Gellman
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them. -- Duncan Green
Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.' -- Robyn
Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it. -- Jonathan Chait
The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms. -- Temple Grandin
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. -- Ben Edwards
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that. -- Annie Leonard
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is. -- Arundhati Roy
Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing. -- Mark Ruffalo
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. -- Daryl Hannah
Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. -- Craig Bruce
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? -- Jeff Goodell
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
At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. -- Vladimir Putin
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. -- Michael Franti
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
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. -- Barney Frank
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. -- Michael Pollan
I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians. -- Alanis Morissette
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. -- Noam Chomsky
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
I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. -- Charles B. Rangel
I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right. -- Rachel Weisz
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life. -- John Prendergast
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
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. -- John Avlon
The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns. -- Nina Easton
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. -- Jamais Cascio
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice. -- Russell Simmons
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' -- Noam Chomsky
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy. -- Nancy Keenan
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
Astronauts: space activists. -- Frank Borman
Families are incubators for citizen activists. -- Ralph Nader
It's funny how most activists are pacifists. -- Craig Bruce
It's funny how most activists are pacifists. -- Craig Bruce
We can all become activists and raise questions. -- Soleil Moon Frye
Statistics in the hands of activists have power. -- Ela Bhatt
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. -- Larry Kramer
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. -- Jasmine Guy
My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me. -- Michael Jackson
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. -- Charb
People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists. -- Mal Fletcher
People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery. -- Vijay Prashad
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters. -- Rush Limbaugh
The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you. -- Rush Limbaugh
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. -- Don Aitkin
Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it. -- Ben Horowitz
Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them. -- Bill Dedman
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists. -- Kate Clinton
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. -- Cathleen Schine
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. -- Bernie Sanders
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president. -- Ron Fournier
As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. -- Shane Barbi
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans. -- Gary Bauer
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. -- Alexander Chee
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication. -- Yoko Ono
Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me. -- Michael Jackson
I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists. -- Pearl Cleage
The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across. -- Katie Cleary
We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings. -- Otto Schily
I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me. -- Charlie Crist
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. -- Amy Goodman
Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. -- Stella Young
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. -- Serj Tankian
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. -- Wole Soyinka
The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto. -- Erick Erickson
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. -- Studs Terkel
The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides. -- Morton Blackwell
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. -- Ken Livingstone
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards. -- Billy Bragg
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. -- Craig Bruce
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. -- Helen LaKelly Hunt
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. -- Virginia Postrel
One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize. -- Allan Nairn
Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials -- Florence King
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track. -- Naomi Klein
Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country. -- Jodie Evans
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. -- Bill Gates
Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe. -- Lyna Jones
Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering. -- Jonathan Tisch
Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support. -- George Stephanopoulos
Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. -- George Stephanopoulos
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next. -- Jay Sekulow
Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion. -- Dan Mathews
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives. -- Evgeny Morozov
Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock. -- Nelson Peltz
There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights. -- Mary Robinson
In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties. -- Geoff Mulgan
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices. -- Dana Priest
Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics? -- Gary DeMar
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach. -- Dean Spade
The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process. -- Matt Kibbe
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
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything. -- Marshall Brickman
We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents -- Hal Herzog
If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas. -- Kgalema Motlanthe
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
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos. -- Paul Di Filippo
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause. -- Elliott Abrams
Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'. -- Noam Chomsky
It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided. -- Barack Obama
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life. -- Jerry Greenfield
This is what we've been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win. -- Max Keiser
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. -- Wole Soyinka
The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to â??protect the environment.â? -- David Bergland
The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians. -- Tim LaHaye
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. -- Amos Oz
Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control. -- Joel Bakan
Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are. -- Laura Schlessinger
I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is. -- Duncan Green
The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do. -- Donald Trump
Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists. -- Bryan Fischer
Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people. -- Avi Lewis

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