“Everybody needs to understand how we feel and what we went through, because if they don’t, they’re not going to be able to understand why we’re fighting for what we’re fighting for.”— Emma González, nytimes.com
“Even making a valid point doesn't warrant using shame or intentionally putting someone on the spot in front of other people.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”— Ross Perot, ranker.com
“We all have blind spots; we need people that love us to call us out and then walk with us while we do the work.”— Emma Watson, goodreads.com
“We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”— Sam Walton, goodreads.com
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may af…”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“The fullest measure of respect that we can show our country is activism - our courage to take a stand or a knee to fight injustice.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“In 2014, making a song about shaking it off may have been alright. In 2017, it just reads as irrelevancy.”— Jacob Shamsian, thisisinsider.com
“I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.”— Garry Shandling, content.time.com
“The only thing that shocked most people in the film industry about the Harvey Weinstein story was that suddenly, for some reason, people seemed to care.”— Sarah Polley, nytimes.com
“Because it does create this idea that, in the same way that I hated ― Sarah Palin used to do this all the time ― ‘Out here in real America.’ There’s no real America. It’s just, it is what it is. Generally people are just trying to get to work. And I think the key for us is to be like, who needs a ri…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“If [Trump] tries to deport dreamers, then that’s where everyone has to go, to protect them. If he tries to make a Muslim Registry, then everyone has to go there and help them. You have to find the people that are going be most in jeopardy, I think, and put your attentions on them because now it’s ab…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.”— Mark Ruffalo, theguardian.com