Activist Quotes

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

If you want something, you better make some noise.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone;

but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

Because of them I can now live the dream.

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

It's easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; But, it is fear.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are.

If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.