Action Quote by Hugh Evans

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

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say…

— Ella Baker

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more…

— William Kunstler

“We need the mass movements, we need people to get together and march, or even just stand in one place, not only for those…

— Lauren Elkin

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's…

— Shawn Amos

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

“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

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of…

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Grace Lee Boggs

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people.…

— Jimmy Cliff

“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

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