Glenn Greenwald Quotes

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

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

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

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. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

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

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

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

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.

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change Washington from the outside.

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

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

It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.