Jason Calacanis Quotes

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

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

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.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

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

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

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

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.

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

We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.