Andrew Dickson White Quotes

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

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

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

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.

This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.