Liu Xiaobo Quotes

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

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

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

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.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

It’s only at certain points in history that people realize just how much power that they have.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

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.

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.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

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.

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

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

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

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