Jim Parsons Quotes

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

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.

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

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

I don’t get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.

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

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

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

I was not an activist.

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

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

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

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.