Quotes About Protest

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.

To see hundreds of people come out in the cold at the University of Missouri to block a few so-called Christians who came to protest against me shows you how love conquers hate.

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.

I sing about social issues, not the boy-girl stuff.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

The very first soldier's funeral protest that I went to was in Omaha, Neb.

I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: 'I need to understand why we're doing this.'

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.