Solomon Burke Quotes

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

You name the demonstration; I was at it.

I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

Different people were complaining, and I remember saying, 'Why don't we just demonstrate?' The Whitney was the first.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Protesting is fundamentally submissive.

I can make this march, and I will make Georgia howl.

People don't stay mobilized.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.