56 Quotes About Organizing

As Jason Mogus has written, organizing is the act of building power; mobilizing is the act of spending the power you’ve built.

INSTEAD OF ASKING OTHERSWHAT DO YOU THINK I SHOULD DO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND TELL YOURSELFI GOT THIS

It is important to pause to celebrate those victories, no matter how small,' she says, 'because that is what gives you courage to fight the really big battles, the ones you have to fight even though there's no chance of winning.' [Kay Drey on stopping 1 of 2 nuclear reactors from being built]

Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake.

Even when there was segregation there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

For the future we should understand that this process of democratizing a state legislative system takes time. Changing a few faces is not enough, just as earning majority support of a legislator's constituents doesn't help if he has been put there by special interests. You have to be around long enough to out-organize the special interests, and change the legislature's leadership.

I don't think feminism can just be imitative or integrationist. By definition, it must transform. But in the short run, there are goals we agree on. And it's in the short run that we must act.

I love being at home, I always have. I love having my own space just the way I like it, I love organising things the way that makes sense to me, I love being surrounded by things I love and I love feeling comfortable.

When organizing remember that everybody has a family and every family has a home.