#activists

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#activists #banking #boards #congressional #country

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

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In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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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 want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#honored #i #past #praise #them

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

— Jasmine Guy

#beliefs #believe #daily #daily life #i

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#activists #barack #barack obama #because #country

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing

It's funny how most activists are pacifists. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#funny #how #most #pacifists