Quotes about Activism
The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And
- Malcolm X
If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.
- Malcolm X
I have learned to hate every drop of white rapist blood that is in me
- Malcolm X
You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
- Malcolm X
They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.
- Malcolm X
the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.
- Malcolm X
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
It's time for women to stop being politely angry.
- Leymah Gbowee
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.
- Nelson Mandela
Boy, the young are angry at us. Good. This is what usually changes the world, although it's a new experience to be the us the young are mad at.
- Anne Lamott
We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.
- Mahatma Gandhi