Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

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

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

Being an activist is not easy.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

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.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

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

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

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

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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