Donald Trump Quotes

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

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

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

If this is about holding meetings, if this is a social movement, where they gather 20, I will get up and gather 200,000 people. Where they gather 100,000, I will bring together 1 million from my party.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.