Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

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.

Caroline Lucas

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

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.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Julian Assange

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Henry Miller

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Howard Zinn

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Gad Elmaleh

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Ernie Allen

The people at the shelter had no idea whether the parents were alive or dead,

Stephanie Graham

The past two games we've been a team funk. We just came alive in that first inning (Tuesday).

Victoria Osteen

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

Neneh Cherry

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

Nicolas Roeg

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

Frank Pierson

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.