Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

The essential thing is the formation of the public will of the nation. That is the starting point for political action.

All power lays in the people!

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolent leader who may choose to listen to us. We need a network that lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top through an open, inclusive democratic process.

No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will make a difference.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you return to your PlayStation. Or you get out in the streets and you make it. Like, when those Supreme Court justices, you know, legalize desegregation, it wasn't due to their infinite wisdom. It's because people whose names you do not read about in history books, people whose faces you will never see, were the ones who struggled and sacrificed, sometimes gave their lives, to make this country a more equal one. When, it's like those people don't make history, it's us.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.