Jane Fonda Quotes

I am still radical!

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

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

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

We are revolutionaries.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

I was born in revolution.