Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Rallies. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Rallies Quotes And Sayings by 97 Authors including Martin Heinrich,Gustave Le Bon,Neal Stephenson,Noam Chomsky,George W. Bush for you to enjoy and share.
People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.
Parking lots and chaos.
People tend to rally around power.
Constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman
In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.
People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
I recently attended a pro-drug rally ... in my basement.
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.
crowd of frenzied females,
We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
The future belongs to crowds.
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
the false courage of association with a crowd.
I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.
It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.
People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
Church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I'd get some version of the same two questions. "Where'd you get that funny name?" And then: "You seem
The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.
I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.
It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.
Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.
In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.
Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
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, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
A united front announcing a split.
Find something that you are passionate about in making a difference and you'll find a waiting kinship of people willing to unite for the cause.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
I concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.
I draw from the crowd a lot.
Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You
Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.
A group of us are going to do something.Group-- Tom Burnett
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
Unite to win. Divide to conquer.
I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.
People have to get out sometimes - have something good to eat, have some drinks, belt out some songs, talk about nothing in particular.
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
the crowds just background tapestries for you to play your life against, lurid backdrops providing a fake sense of drama to help you imagine you're doing more than you would be if you were in some sleepy village or Denver or really anywhere else. New
Our nation must come together to unite.
I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
If you've been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city's traffic.
Two hundred thousand Americans sent in their WIN enlistment forms. Now that the campaign season was upon us, a reeling Republican Party had something to sell: collective obligation, in the key of homespun earnestness.
events in other countries." The
Every promoter who brings together a great crowd in order to sell them back their own togetherness runs the risk that some of his customers will take things too far and engage in some street sports of their own." - CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, Expect Resistance
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.
Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die
that is what we march for!
We have a large circle - all of them anti-Hitler," one participant told Inge. "And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.
Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.
It's simply that in every crowd there's a twerp. All any twerp needs to do is protest loud and long, and he or she will get attention from other twerps who'll go along for the ride
after all, if such people didn't exist, the Ricki Lake Show wouldn't have an audience.
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?
For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.
Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.
As every organizer knows, the first step to empowerment is the recognition of self-worth and the identification of one's interests with that of others. Political mobilization depends on this.
I like playing with a good crowd.
Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.
To go nowhere, follow the crowd.
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
people in attendance. Even though
No more circuses.
We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.
Yells of joy, thousands in chorus. It sounded almost like they were cheering her on.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.