Activist Quotes

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

DaShanne Stokes

16 days of activism? I don't know about you folks, but I'm an activist every single day.

Christina Engela

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

Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate the blasphemies of fictionalized blues women - especially their outrageous politics of sexuality - and the knowledge that might be gleaned from their lives about the possibilities of transforming gender relations within black communities, perhaps we also could benefit from a look at the artistic contributions of the original blues women.

Angela Y. Davis

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

E.A. Bucchianeri

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.