30 Boycott Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether. Ann Coulter

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My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs. Stompin' Tom Connors

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

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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors. Aisha Tyler

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When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon! Alexandra Paul

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Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. Aung San Suu Kyi

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We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories. Brigitte Bardot

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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

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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

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The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products. Eli Yishai

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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed. Geoffrey Boycott

Orca family members belong together at home in the ocean, not isolated in tiny tanks at SeaWorld. If you believe that a mother should never have to know the pain of having her child torn away from her, boycott SeaWorld. Holly Marie Combs

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

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At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning. Keith Ellison

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

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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

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