Paul Watson Quotes

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

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

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

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

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

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

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

There is no power above people power.

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

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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

I'm running because we need change.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Sometimes - history needs a push.