Boycott Quotations

Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups.

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

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

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.

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

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

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole.

No call for boycott has worked, ... The most important thing is for Iraqis to take part by voting 'yes' or 'no.'

Obviously, parents felt the need to include the schools as part of the boycott activities.

Mrs. Parks will long be remembered for her courage on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which sparked the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott led by civil rights leaders such as E.D. Nixon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Ralph Abernathy,

Moved by our nationalist sentiments, we decided to call a boycott of all Australian commodities.

Many Veterans Committee members have spoken publicly or privately against letting Rose in. Some have even threatened to boycott the Hall of Fame ceremonies if he is elected. So his best chances of getting into the Hall are during the next two years.

I found it absolutely incredible that Mr. Duceppe called for a boycott of the installation as governor-general of an eminent Canadian of Haitian origin from the Quebec society, ... I was shocked to see Gilles Duceppe call for a boycott of that ceremony. ... They are Quebecers, they should be proud to see a Quebecer accede to that very important position.

If the temporary visas can be reviewed only after three years, then our boycott will also be lifted only after three years.

There is no excuse for Arab Sunnis to boycott the vote now that we have responded to all their demands and suggestions,

There is no excuse or justification for the Sunni brothers to boycott after we accepted all their demands and suggestions without changing a letter in them, ... Their task now is to participate with us and vote 'yes' for the constitution, and cooperate with us to fight terrorism and the people who want to destroy the country.

The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people organizing this want to make sure the message is positive.

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.

That boycott will be against Texaco, Shell and BP. Those two have been chosen initially. We will be adding to that list as we go along letting people know what they need to do.

People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods.

I think the boycott will die of its own weight,

Rogers told us he regretted hosting the meeting with that group and that he would never have hosted it if he had known the organization might call for a boycott of Israel.

Our governor could boycott Mexico. Tell the citizens to boycott Mexico to give us answers.

It does keep the momentum going and keeps it on the front pages and on the minds of the public who have been inconvenienced. The boycott demonstrated how virtually every product that the public buys and every service the public receives has been touched by a Latino immigrant.

We appeal the people to boycott the polls being held in an army and police cordon, with a clear view to destroying the basic values of free elections.

I would again urge Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to join in this effort and not to boycott this Select Bipartisan Committee,

We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.

We hope that the advertisement will get Arab consumers to consider whether it is fair to boycott a dairy company that has had nothing to do with these caricatures.

We carried out a boycott of Australian goods.

I believe boycotts are wrong.

We're kind of just starting, as far as the boycott of BU goes. But you can definitely tell we're getting somewhere. We're putting a lot of pressure on BU and creating a whole lot of stir in the media. Hopefully, it will force the decision makers to be accountable for their actions.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

We completely understand the frustration and the anger among students that this is still going on. The key thing is that we get it resolved. The boycott of exam-setting is a worrying but effective tool. We have been forced to use the tools that are the most effective for us.

We will continue to perform our constitutional duty of looking into the impeachment complaint against the President. I just hope that the pro-impeachment lawmakers will reconsider their plan to boycott the hearings, but we will not beg them to participate in the proceedings.

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

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

We believe that the boycott and the strike is a legitimate tool that we need to utilize and we support it, but not right now because we believe right now the ball is in the hands of the Senate.

We will hold on to the decision to boycott the trial and not to participate in any future sessions until our reasonable demands for a fair, honest and transparent trial that brings out the truth are met.

With great concern and pain, I just learned that Global Agenda, a publication distributed to our members at the Annual Meeting 2006, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel.

We feel that a good selective boycott on some of these oil companies may provide the tone that will get some action. The fat cats are getting fatter and we know that they are not concerned about the average working person or people in general. They're just concerned about profit making.

We think that the 1 May National Boycott for Immigrant Rights will be a success. The word is out among the immigrant community and with others.

There is nothing to indicate that the absences are the result of a boycott or anything of that nature.

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.

We are expecting that with this national boycott we will be able to further gain some respect, dignity, and improve the lot of the immigrant community.

Defense lawyers have said they will boycott the next court hearing scheduled for November 28. The High Tribunal is the only one able to rule on this, and is free to appoint other lawyers or choose any other solution.

The University Research Park folks are very aggressive and that's what's needed, and that's what I want here, ... Am I going to be fighting for Milwaukee? You bet your life I'm going to be fighting for Milwaukee. But if it's not here, it's not like I'm going to boycott it.

This boycott is symbolic - one game is not going to cripple the club financially.

This is a public uprising. This has spread through the region like wildfire. And the boycott has been practically 100 %.

I?m asking people to boycott KFC until the company demands that its suppliers stop crippling chickens and scalding them alive. No animals should have to suffer this way, whether they?re cats or dogs or chickens.

If possible we want to launch a movement to boycott imported rice.

I haven't called for a boycott for one simple reason. Thirty million people have read this bloody book. They're just not going to go for a boycott.

So far, only relatively few customers have chosen to lift the boycott but we've had positive signals from others and we're hopeful that one of the large chains will decide to list our products again.

I'm not in favor of the boycott against European products. That's an excessive reaction where the innocents pay for the sinners.

Everyone's afraid to be bitten by a snake but the fear can be much worse than the bite. Our policy is that before you call a boycott you do everything in your power to avoid it. They're costly and time-consuming. You take the easy road first and work with the companies in private.

It's premature to do the boycott May 1, given that the Senate doesn't get back in session until the week of April 23. We want to see what comes out of the Senate and what compromises (with the House) emerge before we do that.

It's beginning to turn out to be quite an impressive day. In these first hours of the boycott and work stoppage, it seems to be having an effect already.

I realize that these folks have got a cause but they hurt the smaller retailers. The boycott hurts them worse than anybody.

I haven't heard a thing that there's an impact from the boycott other than the usual number of workers gone on a Monday.

If you want to boycott search and links, then you will die on paper.

They want to keep the boycott as a last resort.

Anything that impairs our ability to communicate with members is something we don't take lightly ? our members are likely to have a very negative reaction to this as well. If AOL actually pulls the trigger on this plan, a boycott would be our response.

As far as a tourism boycott which I had called off, it will be organized again. As much as we are floored to get the news, we are determined to go ahead and keep working.

Any boycott of Danish goods would be seen as a boycott of European goods.

Any WTO member state that backed boycott of this kind would expose itself to serious criticisms under the WTO. We cannot rule out the possibility of such governments' support being addressed through the WTO. We regret to being forced into such action.

After what happenedthe defense team was confronted with only one choice the boycott of a court that has no legitimacy, (is) unconstitutional and has already taken a prior decision to convict the President.

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

The bus boycott was instrumental in the desegregation in the community. It is unbelievable the atrocities people were living with in that day. The book tells of some of the harrowing experiences they had but I believe most of the boycotters knew the risk of their participation.

The marches were secondary. It was just a space to allow for people to express themselves. It was the boycott that was first and foremost.

following the arrest of Rosa Parks, Judge Johnson ruled that African-Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, were acting within their constitutional rights when they organized a boycott of the buses and that Martin Luther King Jr. and others could march from Selma to Montgomery.

We will take every opportunity to inform consumers of our decision and urge them to make similar decisions to boycott those hotels who take their money but refuse to provide them economic opportunities,

We look to the boycott as a futile pressure on the court and the course of justice. We support the independence and transparency of the court totally.

It is shocking and ironic that this one-sided boycott effort comes at a time when Israel is making a series of dramatic steps toward peace, including the recent withdrawal from Gaza.

A boycott of Danish goods is by definition a boycott of European goods. A boycott hurts the economic interests of all parties.

A boycott of Danish goods is by definition a boycott of European goods. We do not consider a boycott of any kind a good means to react.

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

Because an injustice is being carried out in Florida, we have some people around the country saying maybe we should boycott Florida orange juice,

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