Quotes about Activism

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.

Only if we stand together as one voice, can we ensure that the message is sent and that hate will not be tolerated no matter where it lives in our society.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love

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