Activism

“We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!”

“I don’t think it’s me they hate, it’s my message.”

“The only thing that is an appropriate response to what happened, the injustice of it, the waste of it, the tragedy of it, is to make the film.”

“Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities.”

“I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is my duty to voice the sufferings of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.”

“Equality is an unfinished business.”

“I regret nothing. I would do this again if necessary because I think this is an unjust system.”

““from being the disturber of the comfortable to the comforter of the disturbed””

“My commitment to the liberation of the people of South Africa is not determined by where I am located.”

“We do not have to wait for a collective action.”

“The task must be done and can be done.”

“Nici un efort, cât de infim ar părea, nu este zadarnic.”

“The song was intended as a wake-up call.”

“In solidarity we march ahead and will not give up.”

“We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no other spare or replacement planet. We have only this one, and we have to take action.”

“A poem is not a poem if it does not open readers’ eyes to political wrongs.”

“I am a human rights fighter and I will not give up this fight.”

“I stand here today under great stress, because I dare, as do you, all of you, to fight for peace.”