Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

A hashtag is not a movement.

We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.

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.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

We soothe our consciences with hashtag activism and feigned disdain for a country we’d never dream of leaving.

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.

I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies.

While everyone's purpose may be different, with social media we all have that platform to create the change we want to see in the world, and I spend a lot of time encouraging others to step up and use theirs.

If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.