Pete Seeger Quotes

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

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

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

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

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

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

Social change comes through people.

If you want to change something, you’ve got to go where the people are.

It is the moral force which carries a movement forward.

All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'

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

I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

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

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

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

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

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.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.