Gail Bradbrook Quotes

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

Only force would produce social change.

Government doesn’t always work the way its supposed to. Sometimes you have to use brute force, bring people together …

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

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

A little rebellion is a good thing.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.