Jack Dorsey Quotes

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

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

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

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

A hashtag is not helping... A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

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

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

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

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.

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

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Social change comes through people.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

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

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

Only force would produce social change.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

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

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

If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.