Protesting Quotes
76 quotes by 70 authors
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest…
— Wyclef Jean
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority…
— Michael Moore
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was…
— Marilyn Monroe
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It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all…
— Solomon Ortiz
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I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
— Sarah Palin
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
— Bayard Rustin
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I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like…
— Romola Garai
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette,…
— Truman Capote
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He Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in…
— Nora Roberts
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She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and…
— Anna Godbersen
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But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was,…
— Homer
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More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed…
— Donald Miller
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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
— Allen Ginsberg
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I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.
— David Levithan
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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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Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
— Nhat Hanh
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With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist,…
— Sarah Waters
Who Wrote These Protesting Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 76 Protesting Quotes, led by these top contributors: