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I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.
You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.
Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.
I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.
If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.
I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
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.
I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.
My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.
In 1985, as a community activist and GLC councillor, I organised the first ever public meeting to explain the threat of a third runway at Heathrow airport for my local community.
I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.