John Cho 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.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

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.

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.

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.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

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

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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

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

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

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

I wouldn't describe myself as an activist.

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 kneeling and everything, I think it really only sort of solidifies who I am as a person and the things that I stand for.

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

Activism is in my DNA.

I'm a walking political statement.