Lydia M. Child Quotes

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Only force would produce social change.

There is no progress without struggle.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Resistance is the first step to change.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.