Rick Tumlinson Quotes

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

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.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

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

From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.

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

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

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.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

People who have been empowered by positive change are demanding quick solutions to current problems.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.