Ben Hopkins Quotes

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

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

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

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Our solidarity will be threatened by them just so long as you do not wake up and refuse to allow them to represent you.

Heed this cry that comes from the hearts of men. Organize the Unorganized.

When people come together in large numbers they become aware of their strength.

Not one of us will have to raise a sword. Not one gun would we need to fire. The great cannon that will be fired is our unity.

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

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

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.

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 need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

Play up the outrage factor and suddenly groups bond together like never before - and prepare to attack like never before.