Satish Kumar Quotes

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.

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

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

With each protest we all said to each other that we’ve got to keep the crazies in check. We didn’t do it, but the next time we said again, “we’ve got to keep the crazies in check.”

Our protest was a cry for freedom and for civil rights. We had to be seen because we couldn’t be heard.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

Surely one can be a dissident without intending to run for a higher public office.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.