I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already.
'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.
What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first wom...
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.
Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
