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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.

— Paul Farmer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was not an activist.

— Joe Biden

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

— Bayard Rustin

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

— Merritt Wever

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.

— Talib Kweli

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

— Lady Gaga

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

— Ben Edwards

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

— Blythe Danner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

— Yaya DaCosta

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

— Daniel Bruhl