Protest Quotes

474 quotes by 400 authors

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. — Joan Baez
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected… — John Berger
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when… — Jello Biafra
It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach. — Michael Bloomberg
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. — Alex Campbell
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues… — Tony Campolo
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the… — George Clooney
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and… — Charles Eliot Norton
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. — Audre Lorde
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should… — Margaret Chase Smith
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of… — Karl Marx
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! — Tim Berners-Lee
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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