Activist Quotes - page 4

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it. (Gloria Reuben)
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. View quote
Jeff Goodell
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point. View quote
Jehane Noujaim
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. View quote
Jessica Valenti
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion. View quote
Joan Blades
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. View quote
Joely Richardson
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. View quote
John Leo
I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. View quote
Ken Buck
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. View quote
Karen Bass
I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist. View quote
Lawrence Bender
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is. (Mark Thomas)
I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them. View quote
Ariel Levy
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything. View quote
Merritt Wever
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. View quote
Michelle Shocked
I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it. View quote
Octavia Spencer
I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right. View quote
Pauley Perrette
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her. View quote
Robin McLeavy
I'm an artist, I'm not an activist. View quote
Shirin Neshat
'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps. View quote
Steve James
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. View quote
Sandra Lee
I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me. (Victoria Moran)
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus. View quote
Wolfgang Tillmans
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. View quote
William Baldwin
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through. View quote
Yoko Ono
I'm not a gay rights activist. View quote
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