Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

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

Only force would produce social change.

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

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

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.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Power Concedes Nothing

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!