Protest Quotes

474 quotes by 400 authors

It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest… — Giovanna Cau
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard… — Henry Louis Gates
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect -… — Jennifer Granholm
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the… — Billy Corgan
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. — Ice Cube
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and… — Ice Cube
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus… — Hugh Evans
Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as… — Nikki Haley
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… — Vaclav Havel
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But… — Tom Hodgkinson
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art,… — Aldous Huxley
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of… — Thomas Huxley
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. — Robert Indiana
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. — John F. Kerry
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of… — Michelle Malkin
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the… — Nelson Mandela
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. — Bob Marley
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. — Jon Meacham

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