Alan Moore Quotes

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

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

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

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.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Social change comes through people.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Only force would produce social change.

Government doesn’t always work the way its supposed to. Sometimes you have to use brute force, bring people together …