Eric Schlosser Quotes

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

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

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

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.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

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

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

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

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

Agitate, Agitate, Agitate. But only for a good cause and in a proper manner.

People don't stay mobilized.