Desmond Tutu Quotes

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

We will fight back until we have democracy.

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

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.

I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people.

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

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

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

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

I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.