Gail Bradbrook Quotes

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

Human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it … that alone determines revolutionary mental forms

A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.

Everybody handles protesters differently.

As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

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

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.