Saint Augustine Quotes

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive…. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world, I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that-which is the foundation of activism.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

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

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

Only force would produce social change.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

It's funny, honestly, by rights, with a lot of the stuff that's happened to me I should be running down the street with my hair on fire, but instead I want to shape things, and I want to shake things up. There's nothing wrong with being an agitator.

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Revolution begins with one step

Resistance is the first step to change.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in