Harry Belafonte Quotes

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Time and time again, organizers have proved that when we work together, when we organize together, that we can win.

I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.

We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

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.

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

People don't stay mobilized.

I've always been a team player.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

As long as we're united, and as long as we continue to organize, invest, and lead with our values, we'll be unstoppable.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

We've got to be moving together, working together, leading the country together, and ensuring that we achieve the objectives that our alliance has set out for itself.

The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.

We need to find means for cooperation.