Harold MacMillan Quotes

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

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.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

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

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

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

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

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

I think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard. In some cases, it's through protest and it's through going on the nightly news and talking about or denouncing every issue on which you disagree with. Other times it is quietly and directly and candidly.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.