Edward Snowden Quotes

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

You can't build a lasting political movement based on hostility to government.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

For a black activist, for an activist of all walks of life, the Internet has become this kind of meeting place where we can exchange ideas, where we can learn from each other, where we can get inspired about new ways that we can make changes within our own communities and own homes.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.

Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.