A. Philip Randolph Quotes

Only force would produce social change.

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

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

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

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

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

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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