Change Quote by DeRay Mckesson

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

— Grace Lee Boggs

It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

— Joy Reid

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest…

— Audre Lorde

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

— DeRay Mckesson

“Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protestors who hold out longer have…

— Wendell Berry

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

“If protesting, do no harm to yourself or others. Peaceful protest is more effective when creating real change. Peaceful protest wins over the hearts…

— Leland Lewis

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'… Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

— Ulrike Meinhof

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest…

— DeRay Mckesson

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

— Stan Van Gundy

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez