Action Quote by Ella Baker

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in…

— Joe Slovo

Efforts following 9/11 were important. They set a tone. They reminded those who might be tempted to take out their anger on an entire…

— Alexander Acosta

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who…

— Ian Smith

“The wisdom of limiting SWAT assaults to genuine emergencies was long gone. Across the country, the tactics Gates had conceived to stop snipers and…

— Radley Balko

“The goal was organized resistance to racial subjugation, and its harassing effect was probably more potent precisely because they risked so much without either…

— Derrick Bell

“in the epoch of representation, assault rules. The regime of representation produces violence.”

— Barbara Bolt

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed…

— Michel Foucault

The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.

— Susan Rosenberg

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a…

— Daniel Boone

People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that strikes…

— Joshua Clover

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an…

— Edward Said

I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to…

— Leonard Peltier