Fidel Castro Quotes

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

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

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

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

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

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

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.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

I'm an activist.

You can't expect to go about change - especially change of this nature, when you talk about racial equality and justice - you can't expect to go about or engage in that without resistance, and so you're going to have some people who aren't on board.