S.E. Cupp Quotes

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

Wake up America.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

One actress can't challenge or change anything.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.