"Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people."
- DaShanne Stokes
"It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good ..."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and languag..."
- David E. Wilkins
"It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!"
- Cornel West
"The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the sin..."
- Chela Sandoval
"A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution."
"We no longer live in a mass-media world with a few centralized choke points with just a few editors in charge, operated by commercial entities and governments. There is a new, radically different mode..."
- Zeynep Tufekci
"In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history..."
- Noam Chomsky