Mario Savio Quotes

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

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

Only force would produce social change.

Resistance is the first step to change.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Social change comes through people.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?