“Comedy is protest. It's "I beg to differ," if you're fancy, or if you're Jewish, "Hey, listen to this!” — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest, — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Those who seek to improve our country through peaceful protest and protected speech, I want you to know that your voice is… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to… — Moddi Copy Share Image
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Look at how many victim groups there are. And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups. They all are on the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was a young hippy, I thought marching naked would be a strong protest, but I don't think it would be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of… — Edward Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
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