Susie Bright Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

One night I will never ever forget is when I was in the thick of a protest. There were nearly one million people outside Parliament. I've never seen anything like it in my life.

Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

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

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

The protest is part of the American way of life.

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

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

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

Out of the bars and into the streets!

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

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 find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

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

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

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.

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

You must stand for free speech in the streets.