Laura Jane Grace Quotes

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

Being an activist is not easy.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

I came from a tradition of demonstrations and protests, and I really believe in them. I think they are powerful ways of bring people together, to organize, to raise awareness, and most importantly to empower people.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

I'm a worker from America. I've been engaged in political agitation for a long time and I've acquired a certain amount of experience.

Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

The signs and banners of protesters are the zoom lenses by which we can focus on the difficult issues of a society.

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

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