35 Movie Quotes about Activism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about activism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 We've got to fight for our trash, stand up for our slop, because when they take our goo, we've got to do. -Yeah, that's right. We've got to do.

Mandy Patinkin as Huxley in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

2 I don't know what to do about the depression, and inflation, and the Russians, and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

3 Stick your head out of the window, open it, and stick your head out. And keep yelling and yell: I'm as mad as hell. I'm not gonna take this anymore! Just get up from your chairs, right now, go to the window!

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

4 A riot is an ugly thing und I think that it is just about time that we had one!

Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)

5 Stop global warming. Start global cooling. Make the world a giant icebox.

Danny DeVito as The Penguin in Batman Returns (1992)

6 Two years ago, those women put up a fight to save a park statue that even the pigeons didn't want.

Allan Lane as Mister Ed in Mister Ed

7 We plant trees. Humans tear them up. The forest does not come back. If we kill the humans, we will save the forest.

Billy Crudup as Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

8 We are here to kill the humans and save the forest.

Billy Crudup as Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

9 Our top story, a tri-county bee, Barry Benson, is saying he intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey, packaging it and profiting from it illegally!

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

10 I'm against the war in Vietnam. I've said on occasions in the press, I don't think black people should go to Vietnam and fight Asian, yellow people who've never lynched us, raped us, called us niggers, deprived us of freedom, justice, equality...

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)