Protest Outcome Quotes

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.

I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment.