Change Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

— Grace Lee Boggs

The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

— DeRay Mckesson

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The…

— Arthur Scargill

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more…

— William Kunstler

The protests may turn into something entirely new. Our people are very creative and well-organized. Some of them are singing in shopping malls. Students…

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

“Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protestors who hold out longer have…

— Wendell Berry

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things…

— Deray McKesson

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

— Billy Graham

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest…

— Audre Lorde

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

— Joy Reid