Ada Yonath Quotes

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

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.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

Dissociate yourselves from the satanic administration, and you will bring it to its knees. You will not have to lift a finger, let alone a stick or stone.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

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

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

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

Remember: Resist do not comply.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

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

The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

Resisting is worth doing.

In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.