Quotes about Activism

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

Plan International protects the rights of children and young women, and I'm an ambassador for the 'Because I Am a Girl' campaign.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

Limiting violence was a good place to start. Abolishing it is a good place to end.

It is here that we see a Jesus who abhors both passivity and violence, who carves out a third way that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. It is this third way, Wink writes, that teaches that "evil can be opposed without being mirrored . . . oppressors can be resisted without being emulated . . . enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed."7