Quotes About Protest

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

I think it's so important for us to make art and to be loud and to resist with our art.

We have to continue to resist all attempts to change our constitution.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

We are revolutionaries.

Why do we have to have another riot?

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

At one of the live events somebody had a sign that said 'If Eva Marie Is Here We Riot.' I thought that was pretty cool.

People who seek ransom out on the roads, who set up barricades, they are looking for work.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

We're coming to see the revolution. And the revolution isn't always happy. It's not always pretty. But it's always satisfying.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

There are many cases of activists having their Facebook pages and accounts deactivated at critical times, when they are right in the middle of a campaign or organising a demonstration.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

There's never been such a devastating incident as what had happened in America with George Floyd passing away. That's one of the biggest things that I've seen in the world, but things have happened in the past and after a month or two it's just business as normal.