Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

If this is about holding meetings, if this is a social movement, where they gather 20, I will get up and gather 200,000 people. Where they gather 100,000, I will bring together 1 million from my party.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power. If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does. If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias

Who are we to judge the people of Ecuador? We cannot condemn people when they take to the streets.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

The protest is part of the American way of life.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.