#activism

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#decency #dr-king #labor #labor-activism #martin-luther-king-jr

Use the KEY to change: Knowledge Empowers You! ↗

— Andrew Kreig

#inspirational #political-reformer #change

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. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#ago #asleep #been #church #churches

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#climate-change #coal #courage #earth #ecology

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#conviction #faith

‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. ↗

— Elsa Tamez

#dissent #faith #god #protest #faith

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#church #human-trafficking #slavery #faith

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#agitation #dissent #liberties #power #radicalism

arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#inspirational #inspirational

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money. ↗

— John May

#environment #greenpeace #money