Social Activist

Ai Weiwei

Art

conceptual art

b. 1957

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

🇺🇸Charlton Heston

Science

1923–2008

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

🇺🇸Bella Abzug

Politics

1920–1998

"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes."

🇺🇸Dorothy Day

Politics

anarchism

1897–1980

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

🇺🇸Abbie Hoffman

Politics

1936–1989

"Dealing, although dangerous, is a tax-free way of surviving even though it borders on work."

🇵🇰Abdul Sattar Edhi

Social Activism

1928–2016

"Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds."

🇺🇸Dick Gregory

Entertainment

1932–2017

"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

🇺🇸John Trudell

Literature

1946–2015

"Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm."

🇹🇷Fethullah Gülen

Literature

Sufism

1941–2024

"They try to portray us as a pro-Israeli movement, in the sense that we have a higher regard for them than our nation. We are accepting them as a people, as part of the people of the world."

🇬🇷Yanni

Music

b. 1954

"I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above."

🇺🇸Fred Hampton

Social Activism

1948–1969

"Why don’t you live for the people. Why don’t you struggle for the people. Why don’t you die for the people."

🇺🇸Aurelia Henry Reinhardt

Politics

1877–1948

"Today in a land where all women inherit civic responsibility, where professions and business are open to all comers without distinction of sex, leadership through direct influence is woman’s unchallenged heritage."

🇺🇸Keith Haring

Art

street art

1958–1990

"The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation."

🇵🇱Zbigniew Stonoga

Business

b. 1974

"I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!"