Jean Dominique Quotes

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

Only force would produce social change.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

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.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

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.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

We are here to make another world.

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

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Social change comes through people.

Social change without music would be void of soul. Nonviolence without music, meditation, action, and a willingness to take risks probably doesn't exist.

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

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.