Quotes About Protest

What if when they called a war, no one went?

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

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It's vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.

Martin White, who stood up and said his piece. Claimed that he was a good Free-State man, but a free white state man, and he intended to obey the laws, and the rest of us should as well.

If the name Ole Miss evokes football fields and magnolias for its alumni, it evokes tear gas and shotguns for others.

cannot show: that the terror began not in far-off Poland, but in the heart of a city full of clubs and cafés, spaces where you can still buy a lottery ticket or go to the dentist. Each four-inch square recalls an ordinary human being, in the midst of her life, who was deported and murdered with little notice and no protest from the other ordinary human beings who surrounded her every day. The terror was here.

Architect Robert Alexander, who was the business partner of celebrated California architect Richard Neutra, decided to protest the proposed destruction of the garden. He chained himself to a rock near the Well of the Scribes and said he would stay there until the paving plan was abandoned.

hope had become despair, protestors had become terrorists, love had become sex, music had become noise, and us had become me.

Luddites broke hundreds of machines and shut down dozens of factories. To the poorest factory workers, Luddites were heroes!

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...

Don't want that, do they?" She throws back her head and shouts, "Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things fair. It doesn't fill our stomachs. In fact it scares off nearby game.

I want to start an uprising," I say.

And if we burn, you burn with us!

Fire is catching! And if we burn you burn with us.

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

I didn't want to!" Peeta flushes in agitation.

Dit is zeker geen goed moment om te zeggen dat ik een pop aan een strop heb gehangen en daar de naam van Seneca Crane op heb geschilderd? - Katniss

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.