Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. — William Burnham Woods Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
