Because we are inwardly empty, dull, mediocre, we use our relationships and our social reforms as a means of escaping from ourselves. I wonder if you have noticed how lonely most people are? —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: loneliness relationships activism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: activism responsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. —Martin Sheen More about this quote Tags: activism civil disobedience government personal change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: humor activism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It takes six simpletons and one zealot to start a movement. —Anzia Yezierska More about this quote Tags: activism movements Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: activism prejudice law civil disobedience crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family? —Bushra Rehman More about this quote Tags: activism family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email