Leslie Jordan Quotes

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

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Being an activist is not easy.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

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.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.