Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.

Life in America is nothing but struggle, you gotta continue to try to overcome. Keep organizing, Obama said, keep organizing, grab a clipboard, get your signatures and start protesting, run for office yourself, but the shtruggle, the shtruggle is what defines us and we must continue with the shtruggle. Just pathetic, folks, the whole thing is pathetic.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

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

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

In the future, 'the networked' will sometimes form alliances with the Silicon Valley companies against Congress, but sometimes we are going to want and need to target our campaigns for change at the companies themselves.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.