Ulrike Meinhof Quotes

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

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

Resisting is worth doing.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

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

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

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

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.