Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

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.

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.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

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.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

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.

If the world is to be put together it will not be done by large organizations. It will be done by millions of small organizations…. Participation: That’s what is going to save the human race.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

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

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.

All social change begins with a conversation.