Pierre Boulez Quotes

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

I was the victim of people wanting change.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.

We don't take over the means of those whom we abhor.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

At the end of the day, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.