Taylor Hanson Quotes

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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.

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

If people were silent, nothing would change.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

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

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.