Noam Chomsky Quotes

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

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

People power. It has no limits.

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

All power lays in the people!

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

People say that the government should be doing this Yeah, but the government is not doing this. So we do.

The center of gravity has shifted from the courts to community action.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you return to your PlayStation. Or you get out in the streets and you make it. Like, when those Supreme Court justices, you know, legalize desegregation, it wasn't due to their infinite wisdom. It's because people whose names you do not read about in history books, people whose faces you will never see, were the ones who struggled and sacrificed, sometimes gave their lives, to make this country a more equal one. When, it's like those people don't make history, it's us.

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

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

Ordinary people can bring about change.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

We the people are the change makers.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.