Julia Bacha Quotes

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.