Quotes about Activism
I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.
- Martin Luther King III
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...
- Nikki Giovanni
I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.
- James H. Cone
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
- Malala Yousafzai
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
- Hillary Clinton
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, "power to the women".
- Desmond Tutu
The world needs a revolution led by women.
- Desmond Tutu
I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.
- Hillary Clinton
I can promise you that women working together — linked, informed and educated — can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
- Isabel Allende
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.
- Martin Luther King III