Activism Quotes

"No task is impossible so long as you look onto unconquered peaks in good faith and for a higher calling than you own ego”

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

I must admit that I have gone through those moments when I was greatly disappointed with the church and what it has done in this period of social change. We must face the fact that in America, the church is still the most segregated major institution in America. [...] The church, itself, will stand under the judgement of God.

There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize — I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power.

If surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization and leverage are the counter-pillars of citizen power.

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

I think that's like my biggest fear ever, that I would get old and stop caring. Everybody says that you're young and naive and idealistic but I don't think that's true, I think they're old and cynical.

I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.