Mother Jones Quotes

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

Rioting is not revolutionary.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell raiser!

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.