Related Quotes
All quotes about:
direct-action issues creative
Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.
direct-action alive surface
Martin Luther King, Jr. We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
direct-action logical method
Emma Goldman Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
direct-action impact empowering
Joe Greene Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
direct-action people important
Arthur Scargill Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
direct-action healthy invigorating
Henry Miller Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action
direct-action voting democracy
Howard Zinn Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
direct-action government asking
Howard Zinn Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.
voting democracy sap
Tucker Carlson I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.
voting
John Bryan I'm really disappointed. I like the idea of voting for the person, not the party.
voting
Alan Keyes I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.
voting freedom-of-speech needs
Neal Boortz Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
voting results very-good
Jacob Zuma The results will be very good.
voting gone knows
Jacob Zuma Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.
voting democracy vote
Noam Chomsky [James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.
voting insane yeah
Ken Kesey I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
voting would-be illegal
Noam Chomsky If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
democracy hate impact undermines
Karen Aroesty Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.
democracy human iraqi minister rights
Jalal Talabani I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,
democracy problem findings
Reinhold Niebuhr Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
democracy shut-up dictatorship
Woody Allen The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.
democracy doe honorable
William J. Clinton Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
democracy world communism
Samuel P. Huntington Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.
democracy firsts election
Rich Galen Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.
democracy important minorities
Robert Caro The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
democracy revulsion happens
Warren Buffett The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.