Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

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

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

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

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.