Quotes about Activism

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments, produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people.

Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I was not an activist.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven.

Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood producer polluting our culture? The politician threatening my moral principles? The drug lord ruling my inner city? If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.