Jeffrey Osborne Quotes

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.

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.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

The Bill was talked out! Peaceful methods had failed…. As the year 1905 went on, the Liberal leaders counted upon early political office. Manchester – the Free Trade Hall – was again to be the scene of a rally at which the Liberal Party would utter their war cry for the General Election. Here was my chance! Now there should be an act the effect of which would remain, a protest not of word but of deed. Prison this time! Prison would mean a fact that could not fade from the record.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

We played video games and read books, and we went to public school. And yeah, we went to amusement parks. We did all of those things, but we also - that was all sort of organized around this nationwide picketing campaign.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

I have been arrested several times protesting.

In our fight to get the SCS, we will use all forms, including protest, dialogue, and discussion, to get our goal.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.