Social Activism

🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

🇺🇸Frederick Douglass

Social Activism

abolitionism

1818–1895

"The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America."

Emma Goldman

Social Activism

1869–1940

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made."

🇺🇸Malcolm X

Social Activism

1925–1965

"You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."

🇫🇷James Baldwin

Social Activism

1924–1987

"Audio files of speeches and interviews at UC Berkeley"

🇩🇪Rosa Luxemburg

Social Activism

1871–1919

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

"Nonviolent resistance is not aimed against oppressors, but against oppression."

🇺🇸Jim Jones

Social Activism

1931–1978

"If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace."

🇺🇸Cesar Chavez

Social Activism

1927–1993

"We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives."

🇺🇸Susan B. Anthony

Social Activism

1820–1906

"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do."

🇬🇧Tommy Robinson

Social Activism

European Defence League

b. 1982

"The last thing we want is a war in this country, but it is the inevitable outcome for the way the country is going. Now, the British people are not going to sit back and take much more."

🇺🇸Huey P. Newton

Social Activism

1942–1989

"To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."

🇩🇪Günter Nooke

Social Activism

b. 1959

"The Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office"

🇲🇽Emiliano Zapata

Social Activism

1879–1919

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."

🇺🇸Alice Paul

Social Activism

feminism

1885–1977

"You didn’t have to be a good speaker, because the minute you began, you were arrested."

🇺🇸Al Sharpton

Social Activism

b. 1954

"Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly."

🇬🇧Choudhry Rahmat Ali

Social Activism

1897–1951

"Kamran, Tahir , "Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia", in Ali Usman Qasmi; Megan Eaton Robb , Muslims against the Muslim League, Cambridge University Press, pp. 82–108"

🇺🇸Edith Windsor

Social Activism

1929–2017

"I could not imagine a life that way…I wanted to be like everybody else. You marry a man who supports you – it never occurred to me I'd have to earn a living, and nor did I study to earn a living."

🇺🇸Sojourner Truth

Social Activism

1797–1883

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828"

🇵🇪Abimael Guzmán

Social Activism

Marxism–Leninism–Maoism

1934–2021

"The new is focused in our country, the armed solution, and the Party’s development through arms intensifies through the armed struggle."

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

🇩🇪Ruth Fischer

Social Activism

1895–1961

"The anti-Nazi camp also was split down the middle, split by an ax wielded by Stalin—an ax called social fascism—by which the Communist half of the anti-Nazi camp was made into the silent ally of Hitler."

William Tyndale

Social Activism

1494–1536

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."

🇺🇸Kevin Rashid Johnson

Social Activism

b. 1971

"Once U.S. prisons are recognized to be a system of enslavement, and the lie is exposed that slavery in Amerika was ever abolished, the abusive conditions that pervades them makes perfect sense."

🇮🇷Ali Shariati

Social Activism

1933–1977

"The enlightened soul is a person who is self-conscious of his "human condition" in his time and historical and social setting, and whose awareness inevitably and necessarily gives him a sense of social responsibility."

🇬🇧Arthur Uther Pendragon

Social Activism

b. 1954

"Arthur's official Loyal Arthurian Warband website"

"Don't be afraid of us, we are all the same. You can't get AIDS if you touch, hug, kiss, hold hands with someone who is infected."

🇺🇸Lena Horne

Social Activism

1917–2010

"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."

🇺🇸Alicia Garza

Social Activism

b. 1981

"I think there's a few things that we need to be doing. So one is we have to stop treating leaders like superheroes. We are ordinary people attempting to do extraordinary things"

🇺🇸Christine O'Donnell

Social Activism

b. 1969

"I don’t think I ever said I won two out of three counties…"

🇮🇳Anna Hazare

Social Activism

b. 1937

"How can the government stop anyone from protesting? The land is not their 'father's property'. The citizens are the masters of this country and the ministers are their servants."

"Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not."