Protest Quotes
474 quotes by 400 authors
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I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come…
— Malcolm X
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion…
— Samuel Beckett
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Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.
— John Grisham
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And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off…
— Isaac Marion
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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said!…
— Melina Marchetta
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Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue-…
— Ally Carter
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You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own…
— Jay Asher
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I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.
— Karen Chance
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What about me?†Frances asked. “The butler,†Harriet replied without even a second of hesitation. Frances’s mouth immediately opened to protest. “No, no,†Harriet said.…
— Julia Quinn
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As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
— John Knowles
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
— Ulrike Meinhof
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The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag…
— Laura Moriarty
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Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you…
— Melina Marchetta
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You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.
— Ram Dass
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
— Victor Hugo
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Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.†Dannyl straightened in protest.…
— Trudi Canavan
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I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.
— Jennifer Estep
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And what will you give me in return, Severus?’ ‘In – in return?’ Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
— Chinua Achebe
Who Wrote These Protest Quotes
400 authors contributed a total of 474 Protest Quotes, led by these top contributors: