E. W. Howe Quotes

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.