Charlie Dent Quotes

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

A national campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism [the convention] and a couple of hangings thrown in. It is better, even, than war.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can't rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.

Teenagers should never fear for their safety when they join their families to support - or oppose - the President.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

A lot of people have sought to place me in the position as the leader of the anti-Trump movement. That is not something that I have aspired to. It's not something that I've requested.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

It's one thing to answer to constituents. It's another thing to have professional disruptors show up at an event with the intent to derail so that you can't connect with your constituents.

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

Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.

I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.

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.