Yara Shahidi Quotes

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Only force would produce social change.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was told to stop his demonstrations; they were against the law and all of that. Now that he's sainted and sanctified we've forgotten.