protest strategy Quotes

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

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.

Whatever will happen has to be based on long-term policies and strategies of resistance. We had the Occupy Wall Street movement, but when they had to step up and organize in a more institutional way, the whole movement dissolved.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about freedom in a society is to normalize, have tourism, have trade, have contact.

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

We [the Rukus Society] created a culture of resistance where going to jail was considered a privilege. We refused bail, went to jail and took our lumps without complaining. We were confident of the support we had ...

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'