Boots Riley Quotes

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

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there's different ways to go about it.

We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot more things that you can do.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

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.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

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.

Activism has been very productive in our society.