Quotes About Protest

I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.

Don't like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn't always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it - and, in fact, I'd say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.

I think my patriotism is strong enough to not be offended when somebody takes a knee during the anthem. That's not something I take personally.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Simone de Beauvoir, writing on the same subject, concurred: "To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints at active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simply an all-pervasive system."24

As Scott Parkin, a climate organizer with the Rainforest Action Network, puts it: "People are hungry for climate action that does more than asks you to send emails to your climate-denying congressperson or update your Facebook status with some clever message about fossil fuels. Now, a new antiestablishment movement has broken with Washington's embedded elites and has energized a new generation to stand in front of the bulldozers and coal trucks.

Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

He began to weep and make protests, but I didn't have the strength to

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

He had no mother but Mother Jones Crying from a jail window of Trinidad: "All I want is room enough to stand And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race.

whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather … and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons

I'm a hacker! Cadel protested. I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.

Freedom of speech isn't something you can mess with with journalists. You try to silence them, they'll shout even louder.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

There aren't any messages in my social protestations.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

I'm against military methods.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

It is easy to stand for freedom and justice in the midst of peace.