Top 155 Activist Quotes

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.

I have the voice of a social activist and I have the voice of the Pakistanis as well. So I can’t be bothered about what people think.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it’s almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas – only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

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.

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That’s who I was when I came into this world and who I’ll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

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

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

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

I’m not activist, but I’m not troubled by being in the LGBT corner.

I’ve become an animal rights activist.

It should be alarming to every tax-paying citizen that the government could turn federal settlement funds into fuel for activist groups that exert power and influence over Washington.

I’m always the one with the activist friends. I’ve been an activist very little.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

I’m an activist.

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I’ve called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

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.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.

I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children’s author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama’s agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama’s second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority – they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.

I still describe myself as the activist with cleavage. Breast implants made me feel a lot sexier.

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.

I’ve been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing’s changed, I’m just a little bit more focused on the ‘T’ now than I was on the ‘L’ or the ‘G.’

I consider myself an activist who governs.

People want me to shut up, but I won’t. I believe social change is possible; that’s why I’m an activist.

My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

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

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the ‘New York Times’ to keep them accountable.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

I don’t consider myself a true activist, in the sense that I don’t like to do a lot of talking. I’ll ask once or twice, and then it’s time to fight.

Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he’s a food activist.

Everyone is impressed by Modi-ji’s leadership. Many big leaders want to work with him. Similarly, as an activist, I want to join the party.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I’ve done so many offensive comedies, I’m now worn down to a little nub of… nub of an activist.

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I’m an activist – that’s just the kind of person I am.

As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I’ll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let’s say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don’t always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter’s school. I just want to be considered a woman.

I’ve become more of a citizen and more of an activist.

I think I’m becoming a climate activist.

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.

I’m not an activist, I’m an actor. I don’t want to be an activist.

For me personally, I’m an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

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

I’ve always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

I get roles where I’m the activist type or I’m always morally upright.

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

I’m really not a politician: I don’t have a political background, though I’ve been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

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

My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.

AOC has proven that she is unfit to hold public office. She is a grandstanding activist who refuses to grow up.

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

I get called all kinds of things – an investigative comedian, a comedian activist – I’ve lost track of what my job title is.

The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central bankers have taken an activist turn.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.