#activism

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#cynicism #politics #cynicism

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#climate-change #earth #ecology #extinction #mountains

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#does #else #i #know #may

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #art #conducive #corners #edges

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ↗

— Russell Moore

#evangelism #poverty #family

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#honesty #kindness #beauty

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#formerly #left #master #sustained #techniques

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

#activist #also #because #bipartisan #career