Luc Besson Quotes

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Social change comes through people.

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.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

All power lays in the people!

Only the people can build world history.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

Grasp Revolution

All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It's not a silent majority, it's really a noisy majority.

I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.