James E. Faust Quotes

It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

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.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The seed of revolution is repression.

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.