Quotes About Demonstration

People want to see fighters who can put on a little show and then back it up. Hopefully I can do both of those things.

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Battle of Cable Street

A la catedral entró una horda de encapuchados. ¿Cómo intervienes? Una cosa son las manifestaciones pacíficas, propias de la democracia, pero harina de otro costal son las hordas de vándalos.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I'm all about proving things.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.

When I'm flying, the big stage is the best time to show it.

We wanted to create a show that put our friendship on display.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind. I told him, "Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

The aristocrat's unspoken duty—to teach, and sometimes by horrible example.

On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by now-Rep. John Lewis and Hosea Williams, who worked with my father, Martin Luther King Jr.

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.