Jill Stein Quotes

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

Forward with the people

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

I hope that people understand in order for things to change in our country, we all have to come together and do it together.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

We need a revolution in consciousness to overturn the system we live in, to strengthen our democracy, to find courage and give hope to our children.

In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.

I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.