Pauli Murray Quotes

I have a great deal of hope. I think that change is here, it's happening. But I know that if we think it's just going to happen on its own, that's not the way it works. We need people to keep talking about women of color writing comics and living the charge. Not just talking but doing. Making art, putting it out there.

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

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Political movements always belong to the young.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

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Revolution means turning the wheel.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

While you live, the revolution lives

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.