John Berger Quotes

Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

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.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

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

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.