An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism dissent protest civil-disobedience
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma GandhiTags: activism dissent protest truth-telling complicity
Thou shalt not stand idly by
AnonymousThe 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where truth can be represented. Indeed, without making this kind of metamove, any 'liberation' or social movement eventually becomes destined to repeat the oppressive authoritarianism from which it is attempting to free itself, and become trapped inside a drive for truth that ends only in producing its own brand of dominations. What U.S. third world feminism thus demanded was a new subjectivity, a political revision that denied any one ideology as the final answer, while instead positing a tactical subjectivity with the capactiy to de- and recenter, given the forms of power to be moved. These dynamics are what were required in the shift from enacting a hegemonic oppositional theory and practice to engaging in the differential form of social movement, as performed by U.S. feminists of color during the post-World War II period of great social transformation. p. 58-59.
Chela SandovalTags: activism feminism activist social-movements
If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
Jenny HolzerTags: politics activism cynicism
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David ThoreauTags: inspirational activism effectiveness
People would rather believe than know.
Edward O. WilsonTags: inspirational animals activism environment
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxTags: acquiescence activism justice protest free-speech principles
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Susan SarandonThe ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.
Marcus GarveyTags: activism belief integrity social-justice
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