Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

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

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

When I see something wrong, I just rail against it.

I'm a rabble rouser, man!

In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed as radical.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

I immediately split the crowd. I thought about coming on every night and shouting, 'Gay pride, white power!' just to confuse people.

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'

My goal is to be accused of being strident.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.