Boycott Quote by Johan Galtung

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action.”

— Steve Crawshaw

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject,…

— John Berger

Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a…

— William Howard Taft

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as…

— John Berger

“But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things…

— Trevanian

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

— Rashida Tlaib

“On April 1, armed SA men took up positions in front of Jewish businesses and tried to prevent customers from spending money in them.…

— Rudolph Herzog

“The government and the mining companies are digging away in villages, virgin forests, pure rivers, and the very values of equality and constitutionality. So…

— Josy Joseph

When we exited the textiles business, we paid our bankers and labourers. We must have been the only company to do that.

— Ajay Piramal

Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about…

— Robert Scheer