Scott Walker Quotes

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

Any government is concerned whenever you have public demonstrations in large measure.

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Such mobilizations are ripe territory for terrorists. It would be a shame to have another contingent of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo clamoring for their children.

Democratic rights develop when the ruled demand them and have the means to prevail.

Nothing could be less intelligent than to assume, as many respectable persons still manage to do, that the forms of agitation which are popularly summed up in the terms socialism, anarchism, feminism, and pacifism are mere eccentricities of unbalanced minds, seeking to cloak their hatred of restraint and their cowardice under theories of social regeneration.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

How do you justify bringing such a large demonstration to Washington DC when the authorities believe that it would be impossible to bring more than 100,000 militant Negroes into Washington without incidents and possibly rioting

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

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

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.