Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

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

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

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

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

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.