Bell Hooks Quotes

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

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

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

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

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.

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

I'm an activist.

For the people of Baltimore, I don't criticize rioting, because I understand it. But after the fires die down, organize, strategize, and mobilize.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

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.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

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 would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

A hashtag is not helping... A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.