Heather Brooke Quotes

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Television has the power to push for change. We need to push it in that direction.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Social change comes not only from the courtroom, but from talking to the media.

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.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

Same-sex marriage polls is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?