David Graeber Quotes

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

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

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

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.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.