Thomas Sowell Quotes

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .