A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Active prospecting let's people know that they matter; that you've sought them out.”
Source: Lemonade Stand Selling: Accelerate Your Small Business Growth
“Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.”
“Active scholars are uniquely attracted by a high-quality graduate school of arts and sciences. Faculty members consider the teaching and training of new generations of graduate students as their highest calling. They believe that working with graduate students maintains and develops their professional skills more effectively than any other activity. It may be the main reason for the great attraction of academic jobs. Laboratory scientists have told me that the opportunity to work with graduate students keeps them in the university. For them, other options would center on research in commercial laboratories, but there the principal investigator would be assisted by technicians, and that is considered a far less creative interaction.”
Source: The University: An Owner's Manual
“Active sin in a life that proclaims Jesus as the Christ is a mockery of the life of Jesus and what God intended to do for you through Jesus!”
“Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.”
“Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.”
“Actively fostering unhealthy habits can easily strip us of a clear view of a meaningful future.”
“Actively living through the critical illness of a loved one or undergoing financial strain can doubtlessly incite a great deal of pain. Please be kind to yourself, and those who are suffering.”
“Actively repeating a lie or denial does not make it true.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“Actively seek out and listen carefully to negative feedback.”
“Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?”
“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”
“Activism has always been the driving force for change.”
“Activism has been very productive in our society.”
“Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.”
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
“Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.”
Source: Hope In The Dark
“Activism” is not just what we see on the streets or on the Internet or in the news; sometimes, “activism” is the simple act of doggedly, determinedly surviving.”
Source: Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
“Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.”
“Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.”
“Activism is the body of justice. It invites you into embodied declarations of dignity and worth. As you participate in its body, you find yourself increasingly grounded in your own.
I think activism is a virtue. To be a person who cares and honours creation is to be a person who acts in favour of its flourishing. I am distrustful of spiritual people who are not roused in their bodies on behalf of justice. We can disagree on what activism should look like, but not on the necessity of its existence or your participation in it.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”
“Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.”
“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.”
“activism: (n.) opting for a lifestyle of getting off your ass.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Activism over profit. Character over capital.”
“Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.”
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“Activism requires an active audience. It’s easier to get someone standing to run than a human couch anchor to do anything.”
Source: Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
“Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.”
“Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.”
“Activism: the noisiest form of idleness.”
“Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.”
“Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.”
“Activist judges and local officials in some parts of the country are not letting up in their efforts to redefine marriage for the rest of America-and neither should defenders of traditional marriage flag in their efforts.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004
“Activist organizations have managed to infect much of the information that is available relating to both gender and biological sex. Any research studies that are not in agreement with this agenda are ignored as though they never existed. Whether it’s health websites, research publications, or media articles, it really is a jungle out there. If what you are looking for is basic, foundational information, anything older than ten years old is probably safe. Anything published in the last few years is questionable.”
Source: The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
“Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.”
“Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story”
“Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.”
“Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'”
“Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.”
“Activists from all over the world--the known & the unknown--would find their way to the Kochiyamas' Fri & Sat night open houses. 'People were everywhere, eating, talking, laughing, spilling out into the hallway [outside their apt]. People were even int he bathroom. You couldn't close the front door bc there were so many people inside,' recalled Herman Ferguson. The Kochiyamas' apt also became a central meeting place for the Movement.”
Source: Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
“Activists have not been passive. For decades, we have tried every tactic to shift the course of our governments. We have voted, written editorials and manifestos, donated money, held signs, protests in marches, blocked streets, shared links, signed petitions, held workshops, knitted scarves, learn to farm, turned off the television, programmed apps, engaged in direct action, committed vandalism, launched legal challenges against pipelines . . . and occupied the financial districts. All this has been for naught. A new approach to activism and a new kind of protest are desperately needed.”
Source: The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution
“Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.”
“Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.”
“Activists must not work against one another in their single-minded dedication to one specific cause. Those fighting to protect horses must not eat cattle. We do well to specialize, but we do not do well if we specialize without knowledge of interlocking oppressions—or without the application of that knowledge.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.”
“Activists successfully challenged inequitable access to public assistance by appealing decisions and demanding access to administrative law procedures known as fair hearings.”
Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“Activists will no longer be required or permitted to take part in campaigns against inequality since AI will be used by the community to solve problems.”
Source: The Mother The Soldier The Activist: Resistance is Futile and Justice will Prevail