Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

America needs to be challenged.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

I naturally want to be provocative.

I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.

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

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.