Actors, Activism and Social Issues
Actors' quotes about activism and social issues
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In this section you will find actors and directors' quotes about current social issues. Many celebrities are promoters of a clear social message: some intervene against racism and in favor of equality, others sustain the feminist cause, or work for solving world hunger. Movie stars address directly to all these topics.
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“Atrocities are human nature.”
“I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.”
“Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.”
“But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.”
“I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.”
“When the war kicks off in Iran, I will be there.”
“There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.”
“I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.”
“I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness.”
“1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.”
“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”
“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
“I have never made a decision based on race and never will.”
“It's hard to be a woman in a man's world.”
“It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.”
“If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.”
“We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.”
“Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.”
“Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.”
“Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.”
“Every day I'm intrigued and sometimes outraged by things that no one talks about.”
“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights.”
“I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.”
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