Systemic Change Quotes

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston safer.

If we can’t sit at the table of democracy, then we’ll knock the fucking legs off. But before we tear it completely down, they will move to build a better one, rather than see this one destroyed.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.

The crises that has overtaken Europe not of Europe only but of humanity and will not pass like other crises and wars, leaving the essential structure of the present day world intact.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

It is my duty to leave nothing undone that I may lawfully do, to pull down this administration....

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means do not merely produce small effects; they produce no effect at all.

Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

By God, we’ve got to get rid of the lawyers.