change 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.

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.