John Blair Quotes

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

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.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Mr. President, we are going to march on Washington. The people are restless. The Black masses are restless.

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.

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

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

One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I mean, it's really decidedly nonviolent in the face of all kinds of situations.

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

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.

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.

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

For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

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 saw my father march with Martin Luther King

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.