Quotes about Activism

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

I consider myself an activist who governs.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.

Anger is like the white sugar of activist energy; it gives adrenaline in the short term but is debilitating in the long term. Love is the nutrition of the gods.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as to powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.