Protest Quotes

474 quotes by 400 authors

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. — Alexander Herzen
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to… — Emma Goldman
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest. — Lorraine Hansberry
I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective… — Nicolas Sarkozy
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it… — George Grosz
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead… — George Grosz
Iâ€™m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, Iâ€™ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do… — Geoff Dyer
I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and… — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
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
In the name of God and humanity I protest! — John Bell Hood
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him… — James Dobson
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished… — Bob Schaffer
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest, — William O. Douglas
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with… — Steve Buyer
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious… — Peter L. Berger
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And… — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Who Wrote These Protest Quotes

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