Naomi Wolf Quotes

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

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.

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

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.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

If there is liberty, if there is democracy, in this country, it will stand or fall with the right of the minority to express to the full force of language its opposition in public to the policies of the government. And it will stand or fall with the courage of the minority so to express itself.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is ... the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

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