Michael Horse Quotes

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

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

Never Tire of Protesting

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

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.

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.

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.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

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

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

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

People don't stay mobilized.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

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

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.