Parker Palmer Quotes

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

We are here to make another world.

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

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.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Revolution is not a one time event.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

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

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Social change comes through people.