Activist Quotes
- Page 2I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'
Chastity Bono
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
David Duke
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Holly Near
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
Karen Bass
I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
Ed Harris
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
Joely Richardson