Doug Baldwin Quotes

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

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

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

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

A strike bulletin or an impassioned leaflet are of more moment than three hundred pretty and faultlessly written pages about the private woes of a gigolo or the biological ferment of a society dame…

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

People don't stay mobilized.

If you athletes boycott the Olympics, it will be like a rock dropping in the water. The ripples and waves will be felt all over. You can be that rock. No one will die and that is the way to fight.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

If the thing that you want to happen is happening... it's no longer a movement.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.