[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
Paul KrugmanStichwörter: activism liberalism compromise barack-obama leftism 2010 republican-party-united-states bush-tax-cuts
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: politics activism apathy neutrality
Where there is power, there is resistance.
Michel FoucaultStichwörter: power activism resistance leftism
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
Anna Deavere SmithStichwörter: activism actions talk rhetoric
Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
Gerard WayStichwörter: activism protest pacifism nonviolence
Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClungStichwörter: inspirational activism
Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group of people who chose to bear witness and demanded that others bear witness as well.
Melanie JoyStichwörter: activism revolution witnessing
Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it
Thom HartmannStichwörter: activism democracy activist
It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
Tariq AliStichwörter: politics activism united-states protest civil-rights civil-rights-movement racism civil-disobedience 20th-century 2010
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.
Martin KeoghStichwörter: optimism pessimism activism nature environment global-warming hope
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