Larry Kramer Quotes

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.

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.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

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.

In our fight to get the SCS, we will use all forms, including protest, dialogue, and discussion, to get our goal.

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

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.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

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

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

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

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.

We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched.

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

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

When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.