Veronica Roth Quotes

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

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.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Strike, if you will, but listen.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

A boycott is the most peaceful and passive kind of protest there is and can be. We do not say we hate you or even say that you are wrong. We just say that we don’t want to ride your bus.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

Remember: Resist do not comply.

Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.