M.I.A. Quotes

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.

We have to organize. We have to build up coalitions across all of these people who are considered "the other." If we all banded together and built coalitions that were truly intersectional, we would be in power. I believe in the power of the people.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.

Those that just talk are also the ones that say, 'Why don't they do this?' and 'Why don't they do that?' Well, they're they. We're all they, and we can all do a little something.

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

I need to hear something about how he's going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that's not heard, then we've got to constantly challenge him.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.