Claire Fox Quotes

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

Protests are part of our democracy.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

I’ve never been involved in a Civil Rights campaign that was not ill-timed

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

No sane person with a life really wants to be a political activist. When activism is exciting, it tends to involve the risk of bodily harm or incarceration, and when it's safe, it is often tedious, dry, and boring. Activism tends to put one into contact with extremely unpleasant people, whether they are media interviewers, riot cops, or at times, your fellow activists. Not only that, it generates enormous feelings of frustration and rage, makes your throat sore from shouting, and hurts your feet.

The signs and banners of protesters are the zoom lenses by which we can focus on the difficult issues of a society.

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

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.