Direct Action Quotes by Jacques Ellul

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• 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
• I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — 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… — Tony Benn
• The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — 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

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