Boycott Quotes - Page 2

• Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Inspiring, Freedom, Tree

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• I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

  Judith Butler

  Economic Sanctions, Way, Wonder

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about freedom in a society is to normalize, have tourism, have trade, have contact.

  Robert Scheer

  Way, Tourism, Certain

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

  Cesar Chavez

  Self, Cost, Wages

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• ...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Children, Struggle, Mean

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• I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

  Dolores Huerta

  Vegetables, Justice, Viva

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• I believe boycotts are wrong.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, I Believe

  "Ariz. Governor to Obama, Napolitano: 'Do Your Job!'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

  Ted Cruz

  Israel, President, Imagine

  Ted Cruz's Announcement on Presidential Campaign at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2015.

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• Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

  Keith Olbermann

  Gay, Spinning, Threat

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• Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

  Ann Coulter

  Airports, Phoenix, Calling

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.37, Crown Forum

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Desire

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel, promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) or denouncing our soldiers. I ask from them to stop contributing to these specific NGOs. But, unfortunately, it does not help. I do not want countries that are friends of ours to contribute to such organizations.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Country, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teaching, Class, Equal Treatment

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• The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

  Abhisit Vejjajiva

  Political, Serious, Election

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• The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

  Cesar Chavez

  Dark, Years, Doors

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• Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

  Cesar Chavez

  Educational, Unions, Lines

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• I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Gay, Thinking

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• Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hate, America, Political

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.144, Penguin

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• The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Progress

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• I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

  Joseph Lowery

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  "Remembering Rosa Parks". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 24, 2005.

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• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

  Warren Christopher

  Strong, Opponents, Election

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• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  Zhou Yongkang

  Cutting, Clear Head, Train Of Thought

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