Community Quote by Richard Benjamin

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

— Cory Booker

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

— Vandana Shiva

I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest,…

— Alex Steffen

It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked…

— 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

The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a…

— William C. Rhoden

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks…

— Jackie Robinson

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

— Janet Mock

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

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

There haven't been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween.

— Lisa Morton

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

— Saul Alinsky