Quotes about Activism
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
- Muhammad Ali
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
- Bill Gates
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
- Kesha
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- Victor Hugo
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.