There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.
Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.
living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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.
The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating right, and they should be left up to the people to decide.
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best
If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.
Activism has always been the driving force for change.
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.