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Protest Quotes by Nina Simone
- I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
- I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
More Protest Quotes
- America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul
- Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What… — Eric Hoffer
- My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by… — Joan Baez
- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
- I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind… — Jello Biafra
- We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell
- The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by… — Charles Eliot Norton
- If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. — Audre Lorde