Quotes About Boycotts

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

Molly Corbett Broad

#4. Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#5. Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

Richard Neal

#6. Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

Eduardo Paes

#7. 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

#8. We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

Cesar Chavez

#9. 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

#10. I believe boycotts are wrong.

Jan Brewer

#11. I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

Ada Yonath

#12. When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Al Sharpton

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

Ted Cruz

#14. Stay away from her. Don't look at her; don't even think about her. If she appears to you in your dreams, wake up and punch yourself in the face for me.

Victoria Michaels

#15. There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

Tom Golisano

#16. Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Ibrahim Babangida

#17. No matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

Vaclav Smil

#18. What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself,
by saying implicitly,
My eyes are clear."
Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing
himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well
with my eyes so inflamed.

Rumi

#19. Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham

#20. Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

Immanuel Kant

#21. She could barely remember what life had been like before him and didn't even want to try. All Grace knew was that she wanted to be with him, always.

Victoria Michaels

#22. Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

Chris Vonada

#23. True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Ralph W. Sockman