Rula Ghani Quotes

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

I consider myself an activist who governs.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

Activism is in my DNA.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

I worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.

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've become more of a citizen and more of an activist.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

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 became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

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.