#activism

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#climate-change #science #social-justice #change

What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs: all had come together to offer women in the 1950s a life their mothers had scarcely dreamed of, free from rampant disease, onerous drudgery, noxious city streets. But the green lawns and big corner lots were isolating, the housework seemed to expand to fill the time available, and polio and smallpox were replaced by depression and alcoholism. All that was covered up in a kitchen conspiracy of denial... [i]nstead the problem was with the mystique of waxed floors and perfectly applied lipstick. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #dreams

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#love

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#action

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#nothing

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#civil-disobedience #dissent #protest #law

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#civil-disobedience #democracy #dissent #law #protest

Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence! ↗

— Gerard Way

#nonviolence #pacifism #protest #violence

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. ↗

— Malcolm X

#non-violence #racism #revolution #racism