Hari Nef Quotes

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.

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

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

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

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.

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?'

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

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.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

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

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

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

I was waiting for the world to change. I'm no longer waiting; I'm part of that movement. I think our role as performers and entertainers is so much bigger.

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young people are so vocal at the moment about so many issues, from racism to LGBT rights to beyond. I feel like - especially when I look at my fan-base - people are so vocal about their opinions and so vocal about spreading love. That's really important, and I think it's really amazing that people are talking about that. I just want that to keep happening.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.