Olivia Wilde Quotes

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

Social change comes through people.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

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

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.

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.

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.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

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