Mother Jones Quotes

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

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

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

We are revolutionaries.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.