Visionary Organizing Quotes & Sayings

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. — Roger Ebert

You can't keep it no matter how much you beg. Dragons are not pets, Ivy. He laughed. — H.M. Ward

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities. — Gregory Allen Howard

We need to do what I call visionary organizing. Recognize that in every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future. — Grace Lee Boggs

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system. — Grace Lee Boggs

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it. — Marco Rubio