Mark Thomas Quotes

I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

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?'

The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.

People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.

Colin Kaepernick had a... maybe he had an epiphany. Maybe he had a realization that 'I have a higher calling the playing quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.'

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

I feel like you have to use the platform you're given to voice concerns and also to praise things when they need to be praised.

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.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.

Everything I do is political.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

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