Albert J. Beveridge Quotes

It’s only at certain points in history that people realize just how much power that they have.

Socialism has not struck root very deeply in the United States, the very heart of the capitalist world, and that the workers there have not yet succeeded in organizing an independent political party on the English model.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

A political movement is that in which the proletarians as a class exert pressure against the ruling classes.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

All power lays in the people!

Grass Roots Convention

We are here today, not so much as to launch a political party but more so and more importantly we are here today to project a vision that will inspire hope.

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

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

We are an ideological grass-roots group, and we use our faith to pick members.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Let the People Rule!

You cannot be a party which on one hand says we're in favor of working people, we're in favor of the needs of young people but we don't quite have the courage to take on Wall Street and the billionaire class. People do not believe that. You've got to decide which side you're on.

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

The biggest strength we have as Democrats is encouraging people to speak up about what is in their best interest.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.