Protest Quotes

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

— Emile Zola

“I detect the activist returning with a vengence.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”

— Sharon Gillenwater

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

— George Eliot

My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.

— Mason Cooley

I used protest music as a vehicle.

— Sixto Rodriguez

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

— Robert Graves

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

— Jose Narosky

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

— Pol Pot

“In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.”

— Ian Fleming

People wanted to protest, and Ukip's a conduit for that.

— Ann Widdecombe

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

— Mason Cooley

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

— Nina Simone

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.

— Katy Evans

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

— Honore de Balzac

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only…

— Ann Coulter

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not…

— Mary Tyler Moore

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before…

— Michel Martelly

Every time I see cats buck up in Europe and have a mass protest, even riots, I'm like, at least their young…

— Everlast

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the…

— Kristin Hannah

You are free to protest peacefully, but the minute you use violence and attack police, all bets are off.

— Miranda Devine

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different…

— Eugene Chadbourne

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics…

— Henry James

Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while…

— Brock N. Meeks

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more…

— Barack Obama

“If protesting, do no harm to yourself or others. Peaceful protest is more effective when creating real change. Peaceful protest wins over…

— Leland Lewis

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty…

— Colin Wilson

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of…

— Eric Hoffer

A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.…

— Wendell Berry

The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of…

— Margaret Chase Smith

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living.…

— Audre Lorde

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our…

— Kamand Kojouri

It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of…

— Giovanna Cau

One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not…

— Jello Biafra

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True,…

— Elie Wiesel

We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis…

— Noah Feldman

In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because…

— Wendell Berry