Eric Burdon Quotes

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Social change comes through people.

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.

Perhaps our generation … will live to reflect … that our hard times were not in vain. They should make us more conscious of the conditions which we wish to eradicate.

If the world is to be put together it will not be done by large organizations. It will be done by millions of small organizations…. Participation: That’s what is going to save the human race.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

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.

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.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

I'm trying to change the world.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

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

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.