Quotes about Activism

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.