Dorothy Day Quotes

No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

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

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Our duty is to fight! Then we can adjust the problems that remain in the life of the colored man.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.