Top 130 Boycott Quotes & Sayings

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

I don't boycott any station.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

Boycott is a perfectly legitimate form of democratic protest.

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.

Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give it up.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.

When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

If you want to boycott Israel because of Palestine, I don't think you actually care, because you're also boycotting 2 million Muslim Palestinian Israelis.

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!

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

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.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

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.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

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 support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.

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.

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.

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.

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

You wanna boycott me, that's fine, but I'm not changing my advertising.

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

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.

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?

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.

India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

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

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

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

Shah Rukh Khan should remember that if a huge mass in society would boycott his films, he will also have to wander on streets like a normal Muslim.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

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.

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.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott.

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.

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.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

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.

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

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