David Hilliard Quotes

Only force would produce social change.

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

We are revolutionaries.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

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

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

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

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

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

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

I am a radical.

Ready for the revolution!

Every revolution begins with someone whining.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

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

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.