Gail Bradbrook

I do have a rebellious spirit.

— Gail Bradbrook

You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.

— Gail Bradbrook

I want the planet protected for my children.

— Gail Bradbrook

I just like swearing and being cheeky.

— Gail Bradbrook

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

— Gail Bradbrook

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

— Gail Bradbrook

There is just arrogance in even having an opinion.

— Gail Bradbrook

Everyone is into yoni steaming. I've done it once.

— Gail Bradbrook

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

— Gail Bradbrook

If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to…

— Gail Bradbrook

People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home.

— Gail Bradbrook

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

— Gail Bradbrook

We've been at war with nature. Now we need to apologize and clean up.

— Gail Bradbrook

We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.

— Gail Bradbrook

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

— Gail Bradbrook

We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.

— Gail Bradbrook

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook

I'm horrified to have been alerted to anti-Semitism showing up in a Facebook group I'm associated with. As a busy mum I…

— Gail Bradbrook

The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's…

— Gail Bradbrook

Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding…

— Gail Bradbrook

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's…

— Gail Bradbrook

Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's…

— Gail Bradbrook

I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand…

— Gail Bradbrook

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first…

— Gail Bradbrook

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring…

— Gail Bradbrook

We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and…

— Gail Bradbrook

We have to be bringing carbon out of the atmosphere, and we can't wait for these magical technologies that are somehow going…

— Gail Bradbrook

I'd been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I'd tried many things and they hadn't worked. So I went…

— Gail Bradbrook

In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a…

— Gail Bradbrook

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new…

— Gail Bradbrook

Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in.…

— Gail Bradbrook

We want an economy that grows health and wellbeing, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from…

— Gail Bradbrook

The big goal - and it sounds crazy - is to save as much life on Earth as possible.

— Gail Bradbrook

I am no longer a scientist as I stopped in 2000. Science was quite a testing place to be as a working-class woman.

— Gail Bradbrook

We've tickled the nose of the tiger, the establishment are frothing at the mouth.

— Gail Bradbrook

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

— Gail Bradbrook

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

— Gail Bradbrook

I want to live in a beautiful, nature-filled world, and, if we get shot on the streets fighting for it, so be…

— Gail Bradbrook

One of the tensions in XR are people who want to slow down and be strategic and then people who think it's…

— Gail Bradbrook

I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times…

— Gail Bradbrook