Pramila Jayapal Quotes

We can all become activists and raise questions.

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Politics is not a spectator sport. You can't just sit on the sidelines.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

I campaign all the time.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

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

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

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

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

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.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.