Alicia Garza Quotes

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

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.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

People don't stay mobilized.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.