The West Wing: Standing Up

  • Ainsley (Emily Procter): Mr. McGarry, I loathe almost everything you believe in. [stands up]
  • Leo (John Spencer): Where are you going?
  • Ainsley (Emily Procter): I'm not going anywhere, I'm standing up, which is how one speaks in opposition in a civilized world.
  • Leo (John Spencer): Well, you go, girl.
I am convinced, that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing oriented society, to a person oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives, and property right are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit, and go out into a sometimes hostile world, declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism.
Martin Luther King Jr.  (via rooftopsedge)

Source: fifteenminuteslater

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!
Martin Sheen, The American President
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present
There’s no turning back…We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart…
Cesar Chavez
A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If I can’t dance - I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
Angela Davis
Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
David Plouffe (via robot-heart)

Source: robot-heart

I have chosen to stay and fight.
Margaret Cho
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Mother Jones
Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
Susan B. Anthony