#activist

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#africa #always #been #believe #cause

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy. ↗

— Nancy Keenan

#about #activists #am #america #behalf

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#activists #against #chance #credible #funny

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#after #any #believe #campaigning #candidates

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#activist #actor #because #empathy #exactly

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#beliefs #believe #daily #daily life #i

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#patriotism #crime

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Karl Rove

#court #empathy #justice #liberal #mr

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#best #civil #civil society #displace #economic

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator. ↗

— Candice S. Miller

#activists #am #asking #endorse #governor