Deng Xiaoping Quotes

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

The one thing talk radio does that is positive is that it finds the rage bubbling underneath the surface and allows people to see that they're not the only ones who feel that way.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.

I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it. I was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Boxing helped me because I was fighting the anger out. I was knocking guys out.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

I'll keep venting my anger through my films.

There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise the press isn't the place to do that.

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

You have to voice your opinion, especially now, since the times we are living in, it is so easy.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent

We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

It's worth remembering that in 1965, something like 20% of Americans were against the war. Something like 70% were for the war. So, it wasn't a popular or an easy thing to do.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.