Sepp Blatter Quotes

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

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.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

Politics for me started in violence.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.