Alice Walker Quotes

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

... an act of insurrection.

This will not stand!

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist.