God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John MuirThe true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
Richard BransonA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouWe are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.
Greta ThunbergThe ‚anti-globalisation movement‘ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Noam ChomskyWriting and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
J. K. RowlingI think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘
Jane GoodallWe begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillThe vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFor years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.
Bad BunnyIt’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The WeekndI have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BonoI adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.
Kevin GatesIt isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan QuayleI was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThis is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice WalkerI have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.
George W. BushFixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack ObamaI submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie RobinsonThose who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
Noam ChomskyI used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
Vivienne WestwoodEven when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.
Barack ObamaJune Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund BurkeI love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice WalkerTrayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Barack ObamaIn the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
Noam ChomskyI didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.
Madeleine AlbrightThe effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
Joe BidenI would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Brian EnoWhen I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.
Conor McGregorI was not an activist.
Joe BidenWe can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.
Greta ThunbergWell the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill GatesAs you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.
Elon MuskFederalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
Narendra ModiI’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
J. K. RowlingThis is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack ObamaIt seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
Billy GrahamThe crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.
Noam ChomskyA calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.
Billy GrahamMy message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.
Greta ThunbergSome of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.
Noam ChomskyWall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.
John KennedyEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore RooseveltI think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
Jackie RobinsonIf you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian EnoGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Bob MarleyWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David ThoreauLittle by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.
Sunil ChhetriWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas CarlylePolitics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.
Greta ThunbergThe reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
Vivienne WestwoodThe people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.
Christopher HitchensIt’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.
Kanye WestThe ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Noam ChomskyI’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.
Jimmy CarterSome say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?
Greta Thunberg