Quotes About Activism

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

The revolution will not be televised.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.