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When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Christopher Lasch

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Michael Kinsley

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

Michael Kinsley

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley