Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Only force would produce social change.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

You can't change the system through violence.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

We must moderate both opulence and indigence by raising the wages of the poor, improving their habits, and lifting them above ignorance, plunder, and theft.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.