Activism Quotes

"I believe the soul of this nation is defined by the people who choose to stand, to stand up to the abuse of power, to stand up for the least among us, to stand up for those who would break the country to get rich or get elected" "There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." "The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out." "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." "The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption" "To speak a true word is to transform the world" "The function of freedom is to free someone else" "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" "I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed—geared toward improving our entire society" "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement" "You lose nothing when fighting for a cause." "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one." "The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people." "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful" "Things need shaking up politically" "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people" "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."