Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you...

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, ‘We are serving the same thing,’ but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the...

The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where...

If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they are.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by “I...

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible–it’s to dismantle those systems.

The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil — instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of...

Poets can’t march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that’s against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that’s what it’ll get. One should never protest...

We want to promote activism through different mediums.

The world was in terrible shape, and I’m glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we’d say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but...

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor...

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...

They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren’t protesting; they were celebrating.

Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end...

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it...

What Friedan gave to the world was, “the problem that has no name.” She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of the suburbs:...

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

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

To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us...

Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and...

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren’t we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.

There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but storieslike this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or mythswe create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do...

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible...

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick...

I told my class the other day I have no idea what judicial activism is, … Maybe the best definition of a judicial activist is a judge you don’t like.

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...

I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of...

[Bush] has chosen to divide Americans with a nominee guaranteed to cause a bitter fight, … record of ideological activism against privacy rights, civil rights, workers’ rights and more.

What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

Activism is a Way of Life

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: ‘The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don’t know much about organizing, but I feel as...

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren’t optimistic, you...

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

People would rather believe than know.