Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Activism is my rent for living on the planet."
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Activism
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Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with."
Michel Foucault
Philosopher, Social Theorist
"My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism."
Daryl Hannah
Actress
"Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence."
Cody Wilson
Activist, Entrepreneur
"All activism is fake activism."
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"Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective."
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"Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss."
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"We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much."
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"No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism."
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"There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other."
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