Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

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

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

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

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

The protest is part of the American way of life.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

A protest is supposed to be public. How can you do it if you don't do it in front of an audience?

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

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.

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

I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

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

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.