Thomas Kaplan Quotes

People don't stay mobilized.

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

All the movements or crusades depend for their inception and early momentum on the personality of some individual man or woman. Someone must care tremendously and give unstintingly of themselves before an idea takes sufficient root in a number of people's minds to go forward without some tangible personality to give it interest.

I think that when you rally powerful voices around powerful issues, what you get are positive results.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

I would love to start a cancer organization.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice.

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

I want to run this party like a campaign—not a bureaucracy.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

I campaign all the time.