Erin Brockovich Quotes

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

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

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can't rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.