Direct Action Quotes

28 quotes by 15 authors

• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the… — Jacques Ellul
• I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… — Victor Hugo
• Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn
• Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman
• Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in… — Tony Benn
• 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… — Dolores Huerta
• Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. — Julian Assange
• Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber
• We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
• The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. — William Burnham Woods
• In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more… — Emma Goldman
• 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 against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our… — Emma Goldman
• 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… — Howard Zinn

Who Wrote These Direct Action Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 28 Direct Action Quotes as follows:

• 7 Direct Action Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 6 Direct Action Quotes by Emma Goldman
• 2 Direct Action Quotes by Howard Zinn
• 1 Direct Action Quote by David Graeber
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Isabel Paterson
• 1 Direct Action Quote by William Burnham Woods
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Joe Greene
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Caroline Lucas
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Arthur Scargill
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Jules Verne
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Jacques Ellul
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Tony Benn
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Dolores Huerta
• 1 Direct Action Quote by Julian Assange