Julia Bacha Quotes

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

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

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws