Activism Quotes

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. - Talib Kweli

While we received comments from major CSR and SRI groups--for whom this is an important issue--we did not receive comments from any of the organizations focused on shareholder activism. Of course the standard is being published as an exposure draft, so we are still looking for comments and will be piloting it to seek feedback over the next 12 or more months. - Alan Knight

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing. - Juan Williams

Whatever time I promote outside of the classroom toward activism is my own business. I did oppose the war in Iraq. I would do it again. - Laurie Brand

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. - David E. Price

We will ultimately rise up with social activism, collective confidence, civic engagement, and service leadership. They say our main contributions will be revitalizing communities and advancing technology. They say that we may be the next Great Generation. - Corbin Klett

We want to promote activism through different mediums. - Ashley Goforth

We have always declared that war in the name of religion is war against religion, and that we must separate political from religious activism, so that what is done by political dictates is not confused with what is taught by our three monotheistic religions. - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

We don't support any kind of activism or anything like that. It's mainly just research. And we send students from the U.S. to the tropics to the Organization for Tropical Studies where they do semesters of research on tropics, on tropical research and frogs and amphibians of all kinds. - Andrew Crosby