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2519 Activist Quotes

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Bad Bad Habit Beats Because
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What I hope is less about what the greens will do but what people who don't consider themselves part of the green movement will do.
About Consider Green Greens
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

Absolutely Action Against Agenda
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
Himself Impeachment Maybe Out
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Activist Become Big Big Mistake
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Fast Fossil Fossil Fuel Fuel
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
Blue Bolt External Like
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
Always Customer Listen Me
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
Essence Nike Sports Through
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

Climate Crisis Holistic Inequality
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
Common Common Ground Find Get
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

Collaboration Come Coming Cooperation
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.

Believe Crowds Even I Believe
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

Anything Blood Disgusting Drink
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

Child Eighties Family Going
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Baby Before Had Hand
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One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Gamble Irreplaceable Precious
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

Build Hard How Infrastructure
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

According American Believed Caused
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

Anything Barrier Biggest Country
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
About Change Depressed Hopeless
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

About Feeling Like People
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.

About Am For The People I Am
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The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Children Discipline Parents Love
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As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Entrepreneur Investor Artist Influencer
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Wait Hire Check Create
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I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

Seen Artists Minute Somebody
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Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.

Currency Collapsed History Cryptocurrency
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I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

Fame Famous Streets
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My life is real.
Life Real
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I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Love Culture Hip-hop
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Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Music Bills Uncomfortable Situation
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It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Quit Aware Strategic Clothes
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As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.

Artist Brand Rapper Window
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I don't ever make moves under pressure.
Ever Moves Pressure
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I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Inspires Everyone Hustling Chasing
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We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Hustler Inspiration Building Bootstraps
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My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Experience Power Taken Quick
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'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

Victory Question Songs Reaching
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As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Case Game Motive Question
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I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
Operate Highest Altitude Music
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Game's always been open arms with me.
Game Open Arms
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From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Rap Career Store
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'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

Victory Lap Accumulation Trial
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I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
Fruits Labor Assets Creations
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People that's in power - the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally - they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

Powe Currency Influence Media
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Don't be hunting returnees like Antelopes because of COVID-19

Hunting Like Returnee Antelopes
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