Eve Ensler Quotes

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.