Sonny Mehta Quotes

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

… let a firm Resolution be taken, by Male and Female, never to appear with one single Shred that comes from England, and let all the People say AMEN!

Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.

I think Amazon has been great for readers.

When my people are dying, that's when you gonna catch me protesting. I'm not gonna protest because somebody got offered not the amount of money they wanted to get offered. If you don't like what they're offering you, just no longer do business with them.

You wanna boycott me, that's fine, but I'm not changing my advertising.

I don't boycott any station.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.

If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.