Atishi Quotes

The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

I have decided to create a new political movement.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.