Jamie Gorelick Quotes

Only force would produce social change.

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

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

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.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

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

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

There is no power above people power.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

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