Joan Baez Quotes

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

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.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

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

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

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

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

What we are doing today is more than singing an agreement. It is a revolution.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

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.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

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.

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

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

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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.

We are here to make another world.

An oppressed people will always rise.