Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Only force would produce social change.

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.

Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

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

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

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

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

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

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

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

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.