Emmanuel Macron Quotes

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Social change comes through people.

A shocking event plus utopian imagination plus movement muscle, that's how we get a real leap.

We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

People don't stay mobilized.

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

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

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.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.