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History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. -- Hugh Evans
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. -- Cesar Chavez
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors. -- Aisha Tyler
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott. -- Vernon Jordan
I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better. -- Martina Hingis
I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that. -- Helen Suzman
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work. -- Richard Pryor
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. -- Desmond Tutu
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way. -- John Berger
I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work. -- Al Sharpton
The best way to boycott is to build your own -- Chuck D
[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous. -- Ice Cube
When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon! -- Alexandra Paul
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since -- Dennis Lillee
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
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success. -- Norman Finkelstein
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. -- Howard Zinn
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such. -- John Berger
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott. -- Harvey Fierstein
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. -- Arundhati Roy
What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices. -- Pamela Anderson
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic... I am really honored, and very inspired to continue living the vegan lifestyle that has been so good to my body, my animal friends, and the world we live in. -- Olivia Wilde
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
I believe boycotts are wrong. -- Jan Brewer
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. -- Jan Brewer
Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products. -- Richard Neal
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. -- Conor Oberst
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change. -- John Berger
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
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. Isn't that really quite incredible? -- Warren Christopher
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. -- Jack Schwartz
I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations. -- Ziggy Marley
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. -- L. Neil Smith
There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons. -- Douglas Brinkley
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts. -- Hugh Masekela
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole. -- Judith Butler
Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning. -- Keith Olbermann
I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination. -- Joseph Lowery
You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it? -- Ice Cube
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election. -- Abhisit Vejjajiva
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. -- Gerry Lindgren
We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. -- Osama bin Laden
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration. -- Samuel Untermyer
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
If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups. -- Khil Raj Regmi
It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live. -- Manfred Gerstenfeld
A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market. -- Simon Davies
By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org. -- Richard Stallman
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
We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime. -- Ian MacKaye
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
I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States. -- Jimmy Carter
In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods..... -- Edwin Black

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