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“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.”

“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.”

People Knows Way Wells Shows Strong Careers Activism Activist Very Strong Understand Me Bipartisan

Author:Norman Lear

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”

“It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

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Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“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.”

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Author:Samuel Adams

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”

People Giving Black Destiny Determine Activism Revolutionary Black Power

Author:Huey Newton

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”

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Author:Huey Newton

“We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.”

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Book:To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

Source: To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

“There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.”

People Reason Activism Patriotism No Reason Establishment No Fear Fear Me

Author:Huey Newton

“The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?”

Want Mind Doe Self Government Father Sound Party Driven Activism Locals Tea Description Self Reliance Founding Reliance Tea Party Smaller Government

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.”

People Ifs World Has Beens Political Desire Song Empathy Driven Activism Listeners Empathetic Political Activism

Author:Conor Oberst

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.”

Matter Values Black Gay Spring Activism Rooted Grandparent Upbringing Being Gay Quaker

Author:Bayard Rustin

“I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

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Book:Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

Source: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

“My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.”

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Author:Al Sharpton

“You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.”

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Author:Paul Wellstone

“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“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.”

Thinking Enough Problem Gone Forgotten Activism Gone Away

Author:Bono

“When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.”

Thinking Christian Political Culture Influence Activism Engaging Political Activism

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

“We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”

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Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”

Planets Activism Living On

Author:Alice Walker

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“Philanthropy is activism.”

Activism Philanthropy

Author:Eli Broad

“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”

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Author:Abbie Hoffman

“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”

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Book:The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.”

“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.”

Ifs World Want Looks Peace Activism Better Place Making Changes Special Interests Look At Yourself

Author:Michael Jackson

“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”

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Book:The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

Source: The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

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