Lena Waithe Quotes

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

For some activists, politics has usurped the role that religion used to play as a source of meaning and purpose in our lives, and a way to find a community.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Most Hoosiers underestimate their ability to effect change.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

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.

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?

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

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

We can all become activists and raise questions.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.