Jillian Michaels Quotes

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

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

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

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

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

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.

Our future is in our hands and we must stop looking to politicians to fix matters - they can't.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.

Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.