Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

The signs and banners of protesters are the zoom lenses by which we can focus on the difficult issues of a society.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

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

You can't change the system through violence.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.