#activists

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cesspool #check #come #deal #each

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#honored #i #past #praise #them

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#audience #did #electronic #electronic media #europe

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#activists #brings #calls #campaign #grunt

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party