Eve Ensler Quotes

We are here to make another world.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive…. During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world, I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebrations. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that-which is the foundation of activism.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.

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.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

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

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

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

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

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

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Social change comes through people.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Only force would produce social change.