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People Power Quotes

We have not come here to beg world leaders to care…We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people.

– Greta Thunberg

Speech at UN COP24 climate change summit in Poland, 4 December 2018.

I really believe you’ve gotta put the power in the people. They’re the ones who are gonna make the experience.

– Guy Fieri

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

– Huey Newton

I never miss a vote; I think that’s the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular – your vote is your one weapon.

– Imelda May

I’m interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.

– Jonathan Zittrain

I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn’t know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn’t do that in Pakistan – you’d be thrown in prison.

– Benazir Bhutto

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

– Corazon Aquino

The web’s democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it’s democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public’s mind.

– Clay Shirky

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

– Eddie Izzard

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

– Charles Hodge

I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.

– Dileep Rao

There is no power above people power.

– Mohammed Morsi

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

– Patti Smith

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

– Eric Balfour

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We’ve seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

– Miroslav Volf

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

– Morrissey

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

– Lysander Spooner

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

– Mark Zuckerberg

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating ‘people power’ with instability.

– Sam Brownback

Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world – one home, one school and one community at a time.

– Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

– Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj