Gail Bradbrook Quotes

The conservation movement, the environmental movement as we know it, really needed to adopt some of the tactics that the civil rights movement and the anti-nuclear movement were already using successfully.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

You can listen to them [environmental protesters] but don’t stop your project—don’t stop your thinking.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

People have to carry on with their lives, so only so much direct action can take place. Anti-nuclear activism may look dormant from appearances, but it’s there, like magma. It’s still brewing, and the next trigger might be another big protest or political change,

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Revolution begins with one step

The revolution starts now.

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

Revolution means turning the wheel.

With rebellion, awareness is born

It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of scientists about climate change? Not really. I mean, in a rational world, if all the scientists said, "The worst thing that ever happened is about to happen and here's what you should do to stop it," you would expect any rational system to say, "Oh, sure, OK, let's do something about it." But that's not the world we live in. In the world we live in, you do need people willing to stand up, fight, march and sometimes go to jail.

'Powell movement.' What do you think 'PM' stands for?

Names which tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often precedes the selection of a name.

The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven’t got a heart.