J. William Fulbright Quotes

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

It seems the only way to induce action in this country is through the creation of fear and hysteria.

Why do today's non-stop shocks -- why don't they spur us into action? Why don't they produce leaps? Especially when it comes to climate change.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

It's good for young people to be angry about something.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

Try not to wake up on fire.

We're seeing is young people who are optimistic, who want a future, want our constitutional rights, are coming to our campaign.

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change.

One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things happen of that nature, some people become immobilized and other people begin to find solutions. And Detroit is the kind of city where we begin to find solutions.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.