Top 40 Boycott Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Boycott Quotes from famous people such as Lee Zeldin, Meena Harris, Uddhav Thackeray, Ziggy Marley, Douglas Brinkley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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BDS attempts to use economic tools to boycott Israeli goods and services and punish individuals and entities supporting Israel. It attempts to use harassment and intimidation to turn Israel’s supporters against the country.
Lee Zeldin
I was taught the value of everyday activism and showing up by my grandma, who wasn’t a public official, but was a breast cancer researcher and would mentor students of color in her lab at UC Berkley. She taught me when I was 4 years old what the word boycott meant.
Meena Harris
Our policies related to China should not be deviating as they differ in case of Pakistan. During times of trouble, we boycott these countries and after a few days extend an olive branch before them.
Uddhav Thackeray
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.
Ziggy Marley
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.
Douglas Brinkley
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.
John Berger
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Conor Oberst
We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.
Brigitte Bardot
I don’t boycott any station.
Mike Lindell
During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.
Coretta Scott King
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
Ada Yonath
I think among a lot of American families who see Walmart as one of their brands and it may be the best thing in town, they may not have any options whether they want to boycott or not.
Shannon Bream
We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.
Ana Kasparian
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.
Nuseir Yassin
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.
John Berger
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
John Berger
I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.
Linda Sarsour
Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
Steven Van Zandt
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.
Stompin’ Tom Connors
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.
Khil Raj Regmi
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Richard Pryor
It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary.
Bernice King
At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don’t want politicians who’ve gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
Keith Ellison
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don’t say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav
The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.
Eli Yishai
When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show.
Charlie Sykes
You wanna boycott me, that’s fine, but I’m not changing my advertising.
Mike Lindell
You have to be careful how you’re using the word boycott.
Vernon Jordan
I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I’m trying to write my own stuff.
Mal Peet
India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.
Zareen Khan
I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or

I don’t care if it’s Saudi Arabia or if it’s Israel or any other country. I can’t imagine our members of Congress or even the residents back in the day that pushed back against apartheid in Africa not to be able to boycott.
Rashida Tlaib
I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It’s because we’re accomplished so much in women’s tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.
Martina Hingis
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
Stacey Abrams
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.
Yair Lapid
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn’t that really quite incredible?
Warren Christopher
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.
Judith Butler
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
Jan Brewer
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
Jack Schwartz
I just realized that if it’s really compassion that drives you, maybe it’s not enough just to stop eating animals but you maybe should boycott the whole animal industry, because… it’s not what you as a compassionate being would want. So actually you should go one step further and become vegan.
Patrik Baboumian