#activism

Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top. ↗

— Robert Graves

#apocalypse #change #poets #protest #change

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl. ↗

— Nellie L. McClung

#inspirational #inspirational

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make? ↗

— Shaun Tan

#activism #antitv #environment #inspirational #inspirational

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

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

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#service #family

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. ↗

— Wes "Scoop" Nisker

#media #news #media

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#complicity #dissent #protest #truth-telling #silence