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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Activism has been very productive in our society.
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.