Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

This non-violent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get you killed.

I know there's a lot of opinions about Covid-19 and I have mine but I just know opinions ain't worth risking your life and others. Just stay home.

I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed... And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

While you live, the revolution lives

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

I am still praying for revolution.