Jello Biafra Quotes

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Non-violent protests have reached a plateau. There is no other way but to get into politics to make your voice heard.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

Those who are outraged will vote.

All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

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

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

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out!

The Ballot or the Bullet

It was a mandate. I was there to help overthrow the goddamn government.

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

Politics for me started in violence.

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.