Quotes about Activism
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
- William Wilberforce
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
- Elie Wiesel
Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.
- Elie Wiesel
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
- Al Gore
I believe the gun has no power at all.
- Malala Yousafzai
I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.
- Ava DuVernay
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
- Malala Yousafzai
My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.
- Indya Moore
How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?
- Richard Wurmbrand
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly living up to its creed.
- Martin Luther King III
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
- Ernestine Rose