James Russell Lowell Quotes

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Only when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired do any of us do something different.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Revolution begins with one step

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.