Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

Social change comes not only from the courtroom, but from talking to the media.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

My duty is to raise the consciousness of the American people.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.