Quotes about Activism

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Activism comes from an unbelief that insists that God does not or cannot move and act; it wants to replace God's supposed slowness or inaction with our activity

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.