#activism

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money. ↗

— John May

#environment #greenpeace #money

The naivite, enthusiasm and idealism of young people is not a thing to be scorned, for it is the raw material of constructive growth... ↗

— Pennfield Jensen

#motivational #motivational

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. ↗

— Martin Keogh

#environment #global-warming #hope #nature #optimism

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#africans #black #civil-rights #justice #king

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement. ↗

— Dick Armey

#activism #activists #call #government #grass-roots

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#any #deal #empower #empowerment #know

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#challenge #failed #judicial #judicial activism #meet

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

The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#al-qaeda #antisemitism #dictatorship #freedom-flotilla-ii #gaza