A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
I was not an activist.
I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
I see myself as a climber and an activist.
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.
Smile, breathe and go slowly. " - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.
I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.
Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras, she was one of the world's best-known environmentalists and had recently opposed plans for a dam on a river considered sacred by the Lenca. Honduran police have said they are investigating the murder as a botched robbery, but many of her colleagues believe Caceres was targeted.
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.
I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.