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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
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
"That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder? — Tammy Blackwell
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
— Stockwell Day
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 feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
— Oscar Isaac
It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.
— Shannon L. Alder
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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