William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Revolution, not elections!

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

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.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.