Vladimir Lenin Quotes

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

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

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

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

Government doesn’t always work the way its supposed to. Sometimes you have to use brute force, bring people together …

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

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

Do the magistrates think of putting down our meeting by acts of violence? I for one think they do, and should we be attacked today, come what will, life, death, or victory, I am determined no house shall cover my head tonight. I am quite ready to stand by the law, and not to give our tyrants the slightest advantage in attacking us in sections; but should they employ force against us. I am repelling attack by attack.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

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

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

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