Protest Quotes

474 quotes by 400 authors

I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big… — Bob Dylan
I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. — Lotte Lehmann
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it,… — Andre Breton
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life — Mario Vargas Llosa
An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn
People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament. — Lee Hsien Loong
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring… — William O. Douglas
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,… — Adrian Mitchell
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are… — John Schaar
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of… — Menachem Begin
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace
To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and… — Joe Biden
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven… — Maile Meloy
Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their… — Conan O'Brien
Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun… — Jon Stewart
It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.… — Doris Lessing
All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps… — Asmaa Mahfouz

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