Judith Butler Quotes

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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

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.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

A strike bulletin or an impassioned leaflet are of more moment than three hundred pretty and faultlessly written pages about the private woes of a gigolo or the biological ferment of a society dame…

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

Heed this cry that comes from the hearts of men. Organize the Unorganized.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

People don't stay mobilized.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.