Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

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

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

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

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

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.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

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

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.