Ian Somerhalder Quotes

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

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

Revolution begins with one step

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

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

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

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

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution.

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

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.