Top 155 Activist Quotes

As a chef and activist, I’m particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.
Marcus Samuelsson
Being an activist is not easy.
Joshua Wong
Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.
Tom Fitton
Unfortunately, I don’t think I can call myself an activist because I don’t really do enough of anything.
Merritt Wever
I’m a head coach. I’m not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.
Jeff Fisher
I’m an animal rights activist because I believe we won’t have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
James Cromwell
I wouldn't describe myself as an activist.

I wouldn’t describe myself as an activist.
Katharine Gun
I am not an activist. I am an actor.
Kalki Koechlin
My drama teacher when I was a kid called me ‘Zawe the activist’ and I had no idea why. Now I’ve got older I can see why she always saw that in me.
Zawe Ashton
Entering public life as a woman – be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist – makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.
Gina Miller
I’m not a gay rights activist.
ASAP Rocky
I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.
Sinbad
I’m not a journalist or a politician or an activist.
Alice Levine
Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.
Maya Wiley
I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life. As a result, I’m an activist. I’m for women’s rights, children’s rights, human rights, animal rights. I want to be part of the solutions to try to correct imbalance. And ‘Westworld,’ for me, is that.
Thandie Newton
As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.
Luciana Berger
I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn’t call myself an activist, you know? I’m an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.
Olly Alexander
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
Joan Blades
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed wealth to lazy minorities. But they have also pushed hard on the idea that true Americans are Western individualists.
Heather Cox Richardson
It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away from Western individualism and toward the idea of an activist government.
Heather Cox Richardson
I’m not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I’ve got a right to say what I believe.
Ed Harris
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 don’t view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we’re not shy. We’ll stand up, speak out – even when our voice shakes.
Tim Cook
I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it’s not all on my shoulders.
Laurie David
There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.
Don Willett
I have an activist’s desire to improve people’s lives.
Bill de Blasio
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
I’m asking people to vote for me because I’m an activist leader and a problem solver.
Ayanna Pressley
I’m not an activist. I’m trying to get off the whole atheist racket.
Julia Sweeney
I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
First as a peace activist in the late ’60s, then as a political activist in the ’70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the ’80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.
Susan Rosenberg
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
For me, as an activist and a storyteller, I’m very centered in ensuring that we show the complicatedness of the human experience that happens to be rooted in my community’s trans experiences.
Janet Mock
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
Benjamin Spock
I’ve tried to lead a progressive, activist government.
Dalton McGuinty
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