Suzanne Collins Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

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

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

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

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

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

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

Resisting is worth doing.

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.

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.

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

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?

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

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

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

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

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