Activist Quotes
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I always think it`s a bit of a joke when I get described as an activist. Really, for two or three months of my year I organise stuff, but I`m not as involved as I used to be.
Sarah Polley
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I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
William Baldwin
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Most people in the film community don`t really understand what being politically active means. They think it is just doing interviews. I`m content that the Hollywood left thinks being a political activist means riding Air Force One and hanging out with th...
Charlton Heston
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My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. [on his parents` activist youths.]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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[on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "Gunn is an activist, a renegade vampire hunter who leads his motley crew of fellow hunters on a personal crusade of execution for reasons that the audience is not yet aware of. He is a tormented soul and a lone r...
J. August Richards
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I`m a lifelong liberal. I`ve never been a real activist - I just shoot my mouth off. When I knew Ronald Reagan, he was an affable, boring fellow. Now he`s an icon. It`s incredible. Like half of America, I`m doubly mystified by Reagan`s spiritual heir, our...
Richard Widmark
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While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
John Boehner
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There`s an irony here, in that Del. Dwyer feels he is a spiritual activist. You know what? So do I and the others like me, who are fighting for thousands of Maryland families.
Anthony Gooch
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one`s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
Andrei Krivtsov
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
Subject: Politics QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
Subject: Politics QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you`re supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.
Studs Terkel
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So I`ve been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it`s because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.
George Takei
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Our city has become a rubber stamp for development, ... We bend over backwards to welcome developers. I think if we did have someone on the City Council who is somewhat of an environmental activist, that would be a beautiful thing.
Kevin King
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Microsoft has allowed itself to be used by environmental activist groups [that] have failed to convince regulatory authorities that PVC plastics pose any danger to human health. We are not aware of any evidence whatsoever that Microsoft`s use of PVC in pa...
Barbara Kelleher
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John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
Russell Banks
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It`s been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can`t do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Holly Near
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It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Andre Johnson
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I`ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
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I`m not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I`ve got a right to say what I believe.
Ed Harris
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
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I think I`m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
Susan Sarandon
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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.
Norman Lear
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I don`t call myself a white supremacist. I`m a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
David Duke
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I can`t remember when I wasn`t an animal rights activist.
Ali MacGraw
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I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called `vices`, to be free of intruders,...
Alain Dassas
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Gay activist groups are already starting to instruct same-sex couples to file joint income tax returns, so the Bush Administration should establish procedures right now in order that the bureaucracy will know how to handle the paperwork.
Phyllis Schlafly
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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I`ve been traveling.
Michelle Shocked
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An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it`s almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can ...
Joanne Woodward
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