Activism Quotes

The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. View quote
Alice Walker
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. View quote
Anita Roddick
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. View quote
Stockwell Day
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice. View quote
Angela Davis
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. View quote
Paul Farmer
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. View quote
Camille Paglia
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. View quote
Camille Paglia
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. View quote
Camille Paglia
In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace. (Camille Paglia)
Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. View quote
Joss Whedon
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects. View quote
Richard Stallman
I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Philip Yancey
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. View quote
Blythe Danner
From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there's going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges. View quote
Chris DeWolfe
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. View quote
Ernest Istook
My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be. View quote
Kiran Bedi
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)
My pro-choice activism keeps me busy. View quote
Margot Kidder
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. View quote
Mike McCurry
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. View quote
Norman Lear
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. View quote
Paul Wellstone