Issey Miyake Quotes

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

I campaign all the time.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

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

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

No sane person with a life really wants to be a political activist. When activism is exciting, it tends to involve the risk of bodily harm or incarceration, and when it's safe, it is often tedious, dry, and boring. Activism tends to put one into contact with extremely unpleasant people, whether they are media interviewers, riot cops, or at times, your fellow activists. Not only that, it generates enormous feelings of frustration and rage, makes your throat sore from shouting, and hurts your feet.

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 worked on congressional campaigns when I was a teenager. I did United Way fundraisers when I was a teen. We advocated; we spoke out. I protested the first Iraq War in college.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot more things that you can do.

Being an activist is not easy.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.