Alicia Garza Quotes

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

You can't build a lasting political movement based on hostility to government.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.

I really believe you've gotta put the power in the people. They're the ones who are gonna make the experience.

Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.