Edward Snowden Quotes

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those rooms because voting didn't change those situations for them. That was their livelihood. There's revolution going on all over the world because they actually can't have a voice.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.