{"quotes":[{"text":"I detect the activist returning with a vengence.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstrations","fight-for-your-right","free-speech","gadfly","help-your-community","protest","public-protest","rights","rights-of-man","vengence","worthy-causes"],"id":1562,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.","author":"Jeremiah Walton","tags":["action","activism","activist","love","poem","poetry","poets","words"],"id":17352,"author_id":"Jeremiah+Walton"},{"text":"All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.","author":"Harvey Milk","tags":["activist","gay","inspiration"],"id":21563,"author_id":"Harvey+Milk"},{"text":"Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.","author":"Yuri Kochiyama","tags":["activist","human-rights","life"],"id":26305,"author_id":"Yuri+Kochiyama"},{"text":"I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cry, I might never have been able to stop. So I survived, but I never felt joy, never felt safe.","author":"Yeonmi Park","tags":["activist","biography","inspirational","memoir","suffering","survival","survivor","woman"],"id":28831,"author_id":"Yeonmi+Park"},{"text":"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["activist","patriotism"],"id":31378,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["activist","anger","artist","charity","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","love","love","love","love-and-saying","love-and-sayings","pacifist","pain","poet","protest","revolution","revolution"],"id":33080,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["activism","activist","demonstration","demonstrations","do-the-right-thing","fighting-oppression","fighting-tyrany","gadfly","human-rights","inspirational","motivational","oppression","people-power","protest","protesters","stand-up-for-your-rights","tyranny","tyrants","whistle-blower","whistle-blowers"],"id":51148,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["activist","ego","god","heart","islam","knowledge","love","prayer","purification","worship"],"id":52685,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["activist","novelist","poet"],"id":60895,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}