Peaches Geldof Quotes

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

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.’

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Social change comes through people.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

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

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

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.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

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

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

There is no power above people power.

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

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.