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I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me. — Charlie Crist

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader ... — Aberjhani

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me. — Michael Jackson

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do. — John Trudell

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you ... And you ... And you ... Gotta give em hope. — Harvey Milk

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist. — Ric O'Barry

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it — Thom Hartmann

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. — Joan Blades

16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day. — Christina Engela

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. — Yoko Ono

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee

Are you a murderer?"
"That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder? — Tammy Blackwell

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists. — Mal Fletcher

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. — Stockwell Day

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. — Douglas Brinkley

Families are incubators for citizen activists. — Ralph Nader

If you join the rat race - you're in the race of rats. — Bertolt Brecht

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born. — Andrew Harvey

I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community. — Nate Parker

You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way. — Ray McGovern

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. — Michael Moore

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. — John Leo

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist. — Kristin Kreuk

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist. — Roderick T. Long

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose. — Jenny Slate

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. — Oscar Isaac

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you. — Sinbad

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them. — Shannon L. Alder

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. — Charb

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. — Peter Carey

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. — Jehane Noujaim

God is love. Prejudice and hatred is an act of man. -Tooji — Tooji Keshtkar

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8. — Katy Perry

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. — Eric Holder

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone. — Pauley Perrette

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. — William Baldwin

I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist. — Steve-O

The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river — H. Ross Perot

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling. — Shannon L. Alder

People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!! — Bill Maher

I see myself as a climber and an activist. — Alain Robert

Don't be a witness. Be an activist. — DaShanne Stokes

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. — Michael J. Fox

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. — Jodi Picoult

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. — Dolores Huerta

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. — Jessica Valenti

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist. — Bonnie Raitt

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this. — Ric O'Barry

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. — David Duke

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything. — Merritt Wever

Praise the Creator while you have grace to sing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Statistics in the hands of activists have power. — Ela Bhatt

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists. — Pearl Cleage

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist. — Carlos Delgado

I was not an activist. — Joe Biden

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government. — Dalton McGuinty

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket. — Julia Sweeney

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. — Sam Ervin

I'm not a gay rights activist. — ASAP Rocky

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. — Johann Lamont

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. — Shannon L. Alder

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. — Joan Baez

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. — Tommy Chong

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage. — Tony Cleaver

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. — Bill De Blasio

I detect the activist returning with a vengence. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist. — Ali MacGraw

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist. — Tom Morello

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. — Elizabeth Taylor

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. — Marianne Williamson

I want to be an activist professor. — Tariq Ramadan

I'm not an activist. — Robbie Robertson

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. — Laura Schlessinger

A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society. — Henry Johnson Jr

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. — Tom McCall

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. — Robin McLeavy

The bravest warriors are the ones who stand for peace. — Holly Near

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in. — Wangechi Mutu

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. — Douglas Coop

Christ wasn't only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it. — Jonathan Talat Phillips

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about. — Harvey Milk

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals. — Robert Paul Weston

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. — Isaac Hayes

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards. — Billy Bragg

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you. — Yuri Kochiyama

Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do. — Jeff Goins

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. — Christine Quinn

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill. — Marcus Samuelsson

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. — Michael Pollan

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see. — Bill Ayers

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known. — Al Sharpton

If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight. — Darnell Lamont Walker