Lorne Michaels Quotes

The only way to draw attention to this issue was to run naked through the building.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

I don't approve of many of the attacks of Black Lives Matter. I don't.

I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation's capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.