Activism Quotes
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.
Juan Williams
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.
Norman Lear
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.
Jimmy Carter
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.
George Takei
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.
Bono
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
Michael Kinsley
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
William Baldwin
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Scott Thompson
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
Stockwell Day
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
Anita Roddick
"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.
Karl Rove
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan
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.
Michael Kinsley
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
Scott Thompson
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
David E. Price
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.
Ben Edwards
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.
Jim Hightower
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
Mike McCurry
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
Wynton Marsalis
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.
Camille Paglia