action Quotes

Never mistake motion for action.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

The time is always right to do what is right.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.