Paul Wellstone Quotes

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

People don't stay mobilized.

What makes a movement work are thousands of parts that come together and express itself in favor of a given destination or objective. You have to find men and women who are willing to play the role that each of these things demand.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

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.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

I am the voice of my people.

Let me emphatically point out that … sympathy is useless unless it is accompanied by indignation, and indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds.

As long as we're united, and as long as we continue to organize, invest, and lead with our values, we'll be unstoppable.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Time and time again, organizers have proved that when we work together, when we organize together, that we can win.

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.