Mark Meadows Quotes

No usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

To talk of resisting what is called public opinion as a crime, is to make Socrates an anarchist and Jesus Christ a felon.

We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.

Many women feel that they are so unimportant that their action can count little for good or ill, but it is the mass of individuals that makes up public opinion and public opinion is what runs a democracy!

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

… the most powerful weapon that we have our command to-day is public opinion. Statesmen quail before it and it could move mountains!

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

Although every man in democracy thinks himself individually the equal of every other man, this makes it difficult to resist the collectivity of equal men. If all opinions are equal, then the majority of opinions, on the psychological analogy of politics, should hold sway.

There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right”.

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

Public sentiment should be respected.

The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority - this past year has proven that to be true - but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular - and morally right.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.