George Jackson Quotes

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

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

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

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people's agenda.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.