Zephyr Teachout Quotes

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.

When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.

Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.

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

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

I don't boycott any station.

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

I don't believe corporations are people.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

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.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.