Dissent Quote by Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Learn to say, "I am going nowhere until you have given me a listening ear." It is not a protest, but a way to…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“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

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth…

— Norman Thomas

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

— David Harsanyi

You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right…

— Bernie Sanders

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's…

— Bernie Sanders

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press…

— Charles Eliot Norton

Dissent without action is consent.

— Henry David Thoreau

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“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