Rose McGowan Quotes

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

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.

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

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

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

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

I hadn't planned on being an activist.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

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

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?