Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

I am going to fight for important things.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

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.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.