Activism quotes

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◆ The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel100

◆ It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ 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 were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

- Ovid99

◆ The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

- Kurt Cobain99

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

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox99

◆ Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

- Edward Abbey99

◆ The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

- Marcus Garvey99

◆ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ People would rather believe than know.

- Edward O. Wilson99

◆ One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

- Howard Zinn99