Activism Quotes

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

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.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

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.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

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.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.