Barney Frank Quotes

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.

People don't stay mobilized.

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

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.

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

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

It's about cultural forums and movements and collectives of people taking a stand. That's all activism is.

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.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

We have to organize. We have to build up coalitions across all of these people who are considered "the other." If we all banded together and built coalitions that were truly intersectional, we would be in power. I believe in the power of the people.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

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

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