Michael Muhammad Knight Quotes

Radicals can be found in any environment.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

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.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

I have always felt like I want to change the course of history.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

I'm running because we need change.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

All I want to do is change the world.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

I'm trying to change the world.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

I am a radical.

Social change comes through people.

Every major social movement in our history was fueled in large part by religion and faith. Abolitionism, women’s suffrage, child labor law, and most famously, civil rights.