Jay Sekulow Quotes

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

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.

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

If you athletes boycott the Olympics, it will be like a rock dropping in the water. The ripples and waves will be felt all over. You can be that rock. No one will die and that is the way to fight.

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.

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

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

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

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

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

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

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.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

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.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

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