Lucy McBath Quotes

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

We believe that “we are all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you are on your own”.

Let's help each other. New York, because New York is first. And then after New York, and after the curve breaks in New York, let's all rush to whoever's second. And then let's all rush to whoever's third. And let's learn from each other and help each other.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they're not alone, to me, is strategic in healing.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

I am on the side of the people.

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together.

It's amazing the support we've been able to get from Latinos and just in general from everyone.

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.