Alice Walker Quotes

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Revolution begins with one step

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

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.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Revolutions do not go backward.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

I want a prepared, organized, orderly and resistless revolution.