Gary Rossington Quotes

Social change comes through people.

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

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Only force would produce social change.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

We are here to make another world.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

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

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

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

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.