Elayne Boosler Quotes

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

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

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

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

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

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

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

Social change comes through people.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.