John Matuszak Quotes

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can't rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.

People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'

I really liked the Seattle movement.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

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

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.