Quotes About Protest

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

If people really saw what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, then they might be marching in the streets to end wars. But you know, I think that no one ever sees because we're not allowed to see, and we're not allowed to publish what we do see. So it's quite difficult.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

When the police came to San Lorenzo they were fired upon by children and grandmothers with rocks, buckets of water, rotten eggs. There was more of the proletarian shopping, as it was called, that I'd seen on the Via del Corso. Jeans for the people. Cheese and bread and wine for the people. Umbrellas for the people, because rain fell and fell that week.

one who breaks an unjust law, must do it openly and lovingly

Ordered to open fire at unarmed protesters, Indian soldiers of the Empire's Garhwal Rifles, staged a satyagraha of their own and refused.

Some of the attendees protested. One guy said, "We have jobs. We can't keep making up excuses to miss work." "If you can't lie to your boss, how are going to succeed at this?" the presenter responded.

The Hindi novelist Phanishwaranath Renu returned the Padma Shri bestowed upon him by the government of India, the act recalling Tagore's disavowal of his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Gandhi's fast unto death to keep the Depressed Classes in the Hindu fold was to begin at 12 noon on 20 September 1932.

The whole world has been fooled in the name of corona and lockdown. Very well said by that Delhi couple who refused to pay challan for not putting up mask. Hats off to their bravery

You know what? Who cares what normal is, Simone. Let's protest. From now on we're the anti-normal, anti-average, anti-standard. You can eat when you want to, I'll wear what I want, and we'll die with a packet of chips in our hand and a tablecloth on our head.