#activism

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#activist #competitive #gender-stereotypes #stereotypes

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#minority #freedom

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. ↗

— Bono

#actually #away #because #enough #forgotten

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #art #conducive #corners #edges

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. ↗

— Norman Lear

#activist #also #because #bipartisan #career

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#advocacy #protest #help

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#activism #because #i #important #kept

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. ↗

— Lierre Keith

#environment #environmentalism #radicalism #vegetarianism #food

We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer. Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly. ↗

— Stephen Emmott

#environmentalism #science #food