Bruce Cockburn Quotes

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.

Resisting is worth doing.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

A little rebellion is a good thing.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

Revolution begins with one step

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.