Derrick Jensen Quotes

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

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

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

I believe in our power, in our power which will grow, and if it will grow agreement will come.

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

Are we strong? Can we defend ourselves? Are we standing shoulder to shoulder? Do we stand up for each other?

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

When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

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

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

Where there is unity there is always victory.