Lydia Lunch Quotes

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

When I see something messed up, I'm going to challenge it.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

Don't waste any time mourning—organize!

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

I want every American to stand up for his rights, even if he has to sit down for them.

Never Tire of Protesting

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

I'm an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.

I'm an activist.