Kenny Stills Quotes

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

Some people are diplomatic, some people are outspoken, but the next generation is very clear. People are speaking their mind out. People are worried about other things besides their own careers. It's not accurate to say that they don't speak out.

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

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

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

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.