Top Direct Action Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Direct Action quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Carol Tavris
For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.
- Carol Tavris
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Image of William Burnham Woods
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
- William Burnham Woods
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Image of Caroline Lucas
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
- Caroline Lucas
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Image of David Graeber
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
- David Graeber
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Image of Julian Assange
Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.
- Julian Assange
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Image of Edward Snowden
We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.
- Edward Snowden
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Image of Howard Zinn
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.
- Howard Zinn
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
- Howard Zinn
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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