Alex Cox Quotes

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

Only force would produce social change.

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

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.

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

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

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

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

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

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

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

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.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Power to the peaceful.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws