Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Activism Quotes
ActivismEnduranceHopeImpactPerseverance My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes - it always does - so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.
ActivismAttention SeekingAwarenessDisruptionUnity It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
ActivismGlobal MovementsGratitudeMedia Influence Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.
ActivismEmpathyInjustice Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
ActivismAdmirationCourageSocial Change I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.
ActivismHistoryMusicResponsibilitySocial Change I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
ActivismAuthenticityConnection I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
ActivismEconomyPolitical SystemReform It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
ActivismChangeClimate ChangeFutureLeadership For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.
ActivismCivic EngagementPolitical Will Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?
ActivismEthicsMedia CritiqueSatireSociety If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.
ActivismControversyParental ExampleVolunteering When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
ActivismIntergenerational ConflictSocial ResponsibilityYouth Empowerment The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either.
ActionActivismEnvironmentalismInfluence There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.
ActivismEnergyPeacePoliticsUnity The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.
ActivismCommunityJusticePeaceSharing Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
