Quotes About Protest

We faced police dogs when we fought for justice for Mike Brown in Ferguson in 2014.

I was a militant.

Proteste herauszufordern ist meistens Taktik, Proteste niederzuschießen ist meist ein Verbrechen, aber Proteste herauszufordern um sie niederzuschießen, ist Perversion.

The flowers in the bride's hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!" "Still, Sue, it is no worse for the woman than for the man. That's what some women fail to see, and instead of protesting against the conditions they protest against the man, the other victim; just as a woman in a crowd will abuse the man who crushes against her, when he is only the helpless transmitter of the pressure put upon him.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

A little rebellion is good now and then.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

If ever they did shoot her, she would probably stand there protesting,

a born objector, I saw that at once, down on the existing order; and that always gives me the impression that the person is spoilt—I can't help it.

Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And

Fuck the war. They were in love.

It was summer, a weekday, and midafternoon; no time for any campus Oedipa knew of to be jumping, yet this one was. She came downslope from Wheeler Hall, through Sather Gate into a plaza teeming with corduroy, denim, bare legs, blonde hair, hornrims, bicycle spokes in the sun, bookbags, swaying card tables, long paper petitions dangling to earth, posters for undecipherable FSM's, YAF's, VDC's, suds in the fountain, students in nose-to-nose dialogue.

Indians had been both demonized and romanticized in twentieth-century American lore, but it had taken the protest culture of the '60s to bring them to the fore as a group of Americans who had long been denied their land, their heritage and their basic civil rights.

This was in the year 1937. There was no escaping the fast-moving trend of events. There was not even an opportunity to protest against them. You could only watch and be swept along. I found the increased taxes and the incessant demands for "donations" by the party a heavy drain on my slender purse.

I'm a child of the '60s. I went to medical school as a vehicle for social change.

I heard the military bands playing with false and terrible cheer in the streets as the recruits went off to war [WW1]. I had beat the bed with my fists then, and cried tears of rage that young men must march off to this artful ad calculated accompaniment to places where wagon roads would be laid across their bones.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.