Lauren Southern Quotes

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

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

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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

Social change comes through people.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

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

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

I'm an activist.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

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

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

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.