64 Quotes by Gail Bradbrook

If your government isn't protecting you and the future of your kids, you have a duty to rebel, and a right to rebel.

We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.

We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the bigger picture. If your child had cancer and it was unlikely they were going to survive, you'd do everything in your power to fight it.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

I did yoga in the cell, meditated, and slept well; somebody brings you some food and drink. I've been arrested four times now.

I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand that we are in a relationship with the earth and all living beings, that we have agency. That life is worth fighting for.

We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and what do I need that just makes you feel a bit better with all the stress. But in other healthy cultures, they have a real sense of ancestor and a sense of the next seven generations.

We do need a vision that's uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there's a lot in the world that already speaks to that, like tikkun olam in the Jewish faith.

But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.