Country Quote by DeRay Mckesson

I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting…

— Ryan T. Murphy

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right…

— Viggo Mortensen

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things…

— Deray McKesson

“Protesting often times takes a stance of offense; a form of violence that may not always be physical but is a form of violence…

— Eric Overby

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Recently we have seen a level of public protest unlike anything we have witnessed in decades. Dissent is about marching, and making one’s voice…

— Dan Rather

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

— DeRay Mckesson

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

— DeRay Mckesson

As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing there, amongst…

— Mr. Lif

Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to…

— Cynthia P. Schneider