Protest Quotes

474 quotes by 400 authors

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most… — Upton Sinclair
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police… — Ron Paul
Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that heâ€™s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and… — Neil Gaiman
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over… — Sam Harris
You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented… — Douglas Adams
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in… — Wendell Berry
Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain… — Douglas Adams
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the… — Woodrow Wilson
There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of… — D. J. MacHale
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak. — John Knowles
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest! — Megan McCafferty

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