Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

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

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 only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

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 love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.

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

We live in the age of communication. Write letters to the editor. Speak to your congressman, to your senator. If you are young, especially young people are taken by this human rights activities. They should organize the universities.

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

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

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

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.

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.