Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

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.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out.

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.