Todd Akin Quotes

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

I have been arrested several times protesting.

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

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

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

The Civil Rights Movement is in transition from protest to politics, and in politics compromise is necessary.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that, it's always interesting to note that it expanded the idea of democracy.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

Portland has a proud history of protest.

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

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

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

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.