Advocate for Change Quotes

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.

While living in exile I have become the loudspeaker for the people of Iran.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

I think John F. Kennedy was the last great hope. And that's why I dwell on that subject. He was someone who could stand up to the militarist element in our society.

[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.