The Most Powerful Quotes To Cultivate Activism Within You
Ever since we were children, we have read about countless activists in our textbooks—from Martin Luther King Jr., to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, etc. These activists fought for us—for our country’s freedom, morals, and equality. They are to thank for almost every single social and political change we have seen in our nation, and that is what they wanted us to understand: That we must fight, just like they did, and how it is too dangerous not to.
1.) “Social equality is the only basis of human happiness.” —Nelson Mandela
2.) “I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.” —Eduardo Galeano
3.) “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass
4.) “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
5.) “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” —Buckminster Fuller
6.) “I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic…and act as if the house was on fire.” —Greta Thunberg
7.) “To those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” —Anonymous
8.) “Every day, you have the power to choose our better history—by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.” —Michelle Obama
9.) “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” —Dinos Christianopoulous
10.) “The trouble is, you think you have time.” —Buddha
11.) “If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
12.) “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” —Audre Lorde
13.) “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.” —Abraham Lincoln
14.) “Early in my life I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” —Malcolm X
15.) “How powerful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank
16.) “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” —Grace Hopper
17.) “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” —George Washington
18.) “A setback is a setup for a comeback.” —T.D. Jakes
19.) “To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.” —Claudia Black
20.) “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” —Albert Einstein
By Kim Holderness
