Ulrike Meinhof Quotes

• If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Fire, Car, Political

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• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Germany, Stopping, Resistance

  Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

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• [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Faces, Rise Against, Terrorism

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• Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Hatred, Anti Semitism, Capitalism

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• These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Military, Struggle, Law

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• If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Fire, Car, Political

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• I can be a subversive element.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Elements, Subversive, I Can

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• Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Resistance, Protest, Agree

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• Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Resistance, Suits, Happens

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• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Please Me, Doe, Resistance

  "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

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