Robert Reich Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Social change comes through people.

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.

Revolution is not a one time event.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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

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.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

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

Political evils must be sorely felt before they can be removed.

I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we're moving forward; we're evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

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

I'm not taking power. I'm catalyzing systemic 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.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

Resistance is the first step to change.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

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

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?

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.