Elise Boulding Quotes

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

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

View talk radio not as entertainment but as a tool for organizing and action.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

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

If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

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.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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

Never Tire of Protesting