Jennifer Granholm Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Changing a political system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.