Eric Reid Quotes

Agitate, Agitate, Agitate. But only for a good cause and in a proper manner.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Nothing happens in America without pressure.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

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.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

As a daughter of a former NAACP chapter president, I know all too well how everyday people can change lives and create progress so many others consider 'impossible.'

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

Dealing with politicians, that's a little different. But government doesn't change until people demand it.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . .

There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.