Karen Bass Quotes

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

I'm a worker from America. I've been engaged in political agitation for a long time and I've acquired a certain amount of experience.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Activism is wasteful.

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.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

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.

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

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

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

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.