“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing I've ever had.” - Margaret Mead. No matter their age, gender, who and what they like, the color of their skin, whether they are human or animal, they deserve the right to be, who they want to be and have no consequences for doing so. It involves ideas like protests and petitions. A true story about activism is that of an eighth-grade student named Laurie Wolff who was upset that all of her classmates who refused to do animal dissections were failing the course. She had a clever idea and gathered signatures from anyone who agreed with her on a petition and then testified before the Las Vegas school board, urging that students be given the option to do a virtual dissection on the computer or to do a live one. dissection. The school district responded by adopting and accepting the policy. Activism means fighting for what they believe is important and includes direct action to make a point and stop it. In particular there are many groups of people who need to fight for their rights from the past, such as slaves and women who had no right to get present them as immigrants fighting for their right to be in America for the future, which could be as many options as illegal or legal abortion. It doesn't matter if they are alive right now or not even on earth, however, like pregnancies, they too should deserve the right to live because they are part of life now. People fight for many reasons, such as the right to be themselves, the right to vote, the right to gender equality and the right to express their opinion. Activists protest to show people that it is important to fight for what they believe in and put the cause...... at the center of the paper ......who needs clean water. An example of an activist is Ellen DeGeneres who supports ideas involving animals and many other topics. In such circumstances activism is fighting for what it believes is the right thing for the world and not just for oneself but putting others before oneself. The forecast for the future looks good because now everyone is starting to get the rights they deserve, but there will be people who go against the rules. Everyone, not just humans, deserves their rights and one day in the future that will happen, activists hope. “You may never know what results will come from your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” - Mahatma GandhiWorks quoted "Quotes on Activism". (193 citations). Np, nd Web. February 26, 2014."Youth Activism Project » Success Stories." Youth activism project. Np, nd Web. 26 February. 2014.