Gloria Steinem Quotes

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

We are revolutionaries.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Social change comes through people.

Ready for the revolution!

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

Revolutions do not go backward.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

Every revolution begins with someone whining.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.