Gail Bradbrook Quotes

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

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

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

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

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

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

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

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

If our Constitution is destroyed, if our right to free speech is denied, then we have the right to use whatever means necessary to survive and advance our position.