Lois Frankel Quotes

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

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

We can all become activists and raise questions.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

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 know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

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.

Social change comes through people.

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

I'm a worker from America. I've been engaged in political agitation for a long time and I've acquired a certain amount of experience.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.