James Douglas Quotes

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Unrest has its reasons.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to violence

Politics for me started in violence.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

American blood will run in the streets.

If they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

Dissenters will become food for crocodiles.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

How long can we keep kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression