Samuel Adams Quotes

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I am still radical!

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

There is no power above people power.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

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.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I am a radical.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Social change comes through people.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish.