Victor Hugo Quotes

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

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

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

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

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

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

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.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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

George Minot [a Concord neighbor] thinks that it is of no use balloting, for it will not stay, but what you do with the gun will stay so.

Only force would produce social change.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...