Harry Bridges Quotes

As to politics, I am doing what I can for the cause.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create 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.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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.

I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

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.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

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.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

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

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

Nothing happens in America without pressure.

Only force would produce social change.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

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.