Lonnie Earl Johnson Quotes

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

If you athletes boycott the Olympics, it will be like a rock dropping in the water. The ripples and waves will be felt all over. You can be that rock. No one will die and that is the way to fight.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.

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.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

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

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.

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

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

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