Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

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

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life.

I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.