DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

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

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

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

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

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Social change comes through people.

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

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

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

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

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

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

For some activists, politics has usurped the role that religion used to play as a source of meaning and purpose in our lives, and a way to find a community.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

There is no power above people power.

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

We can all become activists and raise questions.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.