Robert Del Naja Quotes

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

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

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

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.

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.

I hadn't planned on being an activist.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

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

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

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.

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.

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

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

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.

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.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

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.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.