Russell Means Quotes

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

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

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

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

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.