Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Kathy Change

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Kathy Change.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Kathy Change

Kathleen Chang, known by her performance name Kathy Change, was an American political activist, writer, and performance artist. She was a familiar figure on the University of Pennsylvania campus, often dancing on the College Green brandishing homemade flags painted with various political messages and vocally advocating nonviolent social revolution. On October 22, 1996, she committed suicide by self-immolation on the spot where she had often performed in an effort to engage Penn students in the progressive causes she championed; the packages of writings she delivered to six Penn students, two local residents, as well as Penn's campus newspaper and other news organizations contextualized her carefully planned suicide as both protest and a vehicle for her message.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself. — © Kathy Change
The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.
Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.
Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.
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