Quotes About Protest

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

were suddenly up for discussion. In all sorts of ways, the American society of the 1950s was in a state of fermentation: black citizens wanted equal rights; students and artists were experimenting in a bid to find alternatives to the consumer society; conservatives were carrying out experiments of their own in an attempt to hold on to their religion and traditions; and women had begun to realise they were suffocating in the pretty-pretty life of the suburbs.

The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.

The crowd began chanting, "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.

Any accident involving a robot-driven car would set off another antirobot riot.

Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.

La idea de una revolución pacífica en democracia y con plena libertad era un contrasentido.

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.

Anarchy is against the law.

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.

It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.