Charles Bukowski Quotes

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

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.