P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

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

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.

Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.

If nobody is clear on what you're protesting, it's not a protest. Thousands of people gathered in London this week to voice their disapproval of the G-20. Their basic message being, Stop all your globalizing and unite the world!

Strike, if you will, but listen.

You wanna know how you know you're informed as a protestor? They don't show your interview on TV.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive

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.

We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

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

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

Out of the bars and into the streets!

Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.

Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'