Alicia Garza Quotes

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Strike, if you will, but listen.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Only force would produce social change.

We have tried everything to prevent this, but they have got too powerful, and there is nothing for us but for our friends to go into their meetings and disturb the harmony of them, and create division.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

Without resistance you can do nothing

Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses