Quotes About Protest

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.