(50 quotes found)
“The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have made a significant difference.”
Coretta Scott King
“It's funny how most activists are pacifists.”
Craig Bruce
“The level of engagement wouldn't have gone away. If he was going to be an activist, he would have been all the way an activist. If he was going to be a father, he would have been all the way a father.”
Alan Light
“The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir”
Candace Gingrich
“Some of the conservative activists would prefer to have a sitting judge who has taken conservative positions on all their favorite issues. I'm sure the president considered some people like that, but that was never his goal or his job description.”
Charlie Black
“For the peace activists, they are good, symbolic results. They can use them to impress people with how widespread opposition is. But they're misleading as far as aggregate public opinion. It's an April election, which has very low turnout. So as a public opinion specialist, I have to point out how unrepresentative highly motivated voters are in an April election.”
Charles Franklin
“The cause of reform is hurt, not helped, when an activist makes an idiotic suggestion.”
Charles Munger
“The activist left is running this like their Spanish Civil War, dusting off all their weapons, seeing what works, taking the measure of the new administration, taking the measure of the Democrats in the Senate. . . . And what we are trying to do is see that they get the message very quickly that they are not running on a clear field. I think they are warming up for the Supreme Court, so it becomes very necessary [to resist them] for that reason.”
David Keene
“Roger was a Democratic activist who was involved in many campaigns for several years, but if he was going around making promises for job interviews he was just lying.”
David Wald
“It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.”
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