Gary North Quotes

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

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The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Rights did not just fall out of the sky. They were the result of struggle.

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.

If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.