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Quotes About Activism

In our fight to get the SCS, we will use all forms, including protest, dialogue, and discussion, to get our goal.
~ Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.
~ Mike Bartlett
My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.
~ Jake Tapper
Freedom is a part of protest as well.
~ Andrew Whitworth
Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.
~ DeRay Mckesson
A protest is supposed to be public. How can you do it if you don't do it in front of an audience?
~ Jeffrey Osborne
Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
~ Joy Reid
I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.
~ Kenny Stills
We will continue our protest with our course on free elections.
~ Joshua Wong
The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.
~ Greta Thunburg
Portland has a proud history of protest.
~ Ted Wheeler
I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.
~ Bam Adebayo
Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.
~ S.E. Cupp
My mum taught me the power of protest.
~ Jess Phillips
I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
I fully support everyone's individual right to protest their government.
~ Tate Reeves
When my people are dying, that's when you gonna catch me protesting. I'm not gonna protest because somebody got offered not the amount of money they wanted to get offered. If you don't like what they're offering you, just no longer do business with them.
~ Tiffany Haddish
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
~ Paul Watson
I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
~ Ruby Dee
I have been arrested several times protesting.
~ Patrisse Cullors
We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.
~ Tobias Harris