Suzy Kassem Quotes

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

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

Activism is in my DNA.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

It takes time and effort to soldier on and make your arguments.

You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.