"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Activism, Revolution, Society, Oppression, Justice

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"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."

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"As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Activism, Faith, Rights, Irony

"The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place..."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Activism, Peace, Democracy, Change

"If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Activism, Truth, Future, Wisdom, Power

"I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Activism, Care, Justice, Equality, Politics

"Many of the great humanitarian and environmental campaigns of our time have been to make the unknown real, the invisible visible, to bring the faraway near, so that the suffering of sweatshop workers, torture victims, beaten children, even the destruction of other species and remote places, impinges on the imagination and perhaps prompts you to act."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Activism, Empathy, Awareness, Environment, Justice

"Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Activism, Courage, Truth, Justice, Peace

"Those who fight for social justice and the rights of people will count any other thing as unimportant."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Activism, Justice, Social, Rights, Fight

"The world does not need more pestilential misogynistic pricks to Christianize, Muslimize or basically dogmatize the society " the world needs passionate courageous souls to humanize the society."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Activism, Power, Truth, Future, Wisdom

"The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

Activism, Action, Protest, Presence

"Use filmmaking to eliminate racism " use to it terminate misogyny " use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Activism, Racism, Truth, Equality

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"When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned."

Religion

"Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate."

Morality

"The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community."

Religion

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

Unity

"If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Purpose

"God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able."

Purpose

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."

Resilience

"One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is."

Commitment

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

Courage

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."

Hope