Activism Quotes

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

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

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.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

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.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

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.

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

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

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

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

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

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

"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.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

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.'

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

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

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

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

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.