Denis Dougherty Quotes

I believe boycotts are wrong.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Boycotts are as American as apple pie.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

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.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Civil disobedience is the right of all men when we believe breaking man's law is needed to preserve God's law.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

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.

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

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

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

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.

Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.