Elayne Boosler Quotes

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99 percent, is making a new discussion, making people figure out how to withhold their labor and come and put their issues on the table with the ruling class all over the country and all over the world.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

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

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

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.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

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.

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