Bret Stephens Quotes

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

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

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

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

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

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

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

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

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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.