Civil liberties Quote by James MICHENER

“It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to…

— Gene Sharp

“The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.”

— Victor Hugo

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent…

— Robert Kennedy

The protest that we go to or the time that we stand up for someone or do the right thing - despite its difficulty...…

— Michael Arden

“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

“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

“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

“Political change does not, and never has, come about through peaceful protest alone.”

— Cindy Milstein

“Protesting problems doesn’t really bring solutions. It just brings more problems. We reap what we sow. If we want to reap happiness, we must…

— Elke Heinrich

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“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

“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about…

— Timothy Snyder