Colin Kaepernick Quotes

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.

These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

If people were silent, nothing would change.

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

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

If the world is to be put together it will not be done by large organizations. It will be done by millions of small organizations…. Participation: That’s what is going to save the human race.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and we're encouraging people to come and to join us and to insist that we need to be included.

All social change begins with a conversation.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.