Quotes by Direct Action Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. Arthur Scargill direct-action important people For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference. Carol Tavris direct-action differences knowing When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. Caroline Lucas direct-action peaceful people A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. Charles Darwin direct-action growth law Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works. Cleve Jones direct-action writing school Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber direct-action acting ifs I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future. David Pocock direct-action change believe The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights. Dolores Huerta direct-action brother country If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience. Edward Snowden direct-action party government We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values. Edward Snowden direct-action constitution democracy If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man. Emma Goldman direct-action men america Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Emma Goldman direct-action method logical Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. Emma Goldman direct-action anarchy law Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action. Emma Goldman direct-action real law The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence. Henry Adams direct-action space men Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Henry Miller direct-action humor funny Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. Howard Zinn direct-action voting democracy There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power. Howard Zinn direct-action government mean Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change. Howard Zinn direct-action uprising believe The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism. Howard Zinn direct-action mean thinking 123»