Quotes About Protest

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

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

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Right on, brother hippies, the [??n!$] is mightier than the sword!

Kad bi se sakupila i ujedno sabrala li?na ose?anja gneva, protesta, ga?enja i ogor?enja sa kojima su ljudi pojedinci umrli, uzalud dozivaju?i pravdu i zaštitu - kad bi tako nešto bilo mogu?no - bila bi to velika snaga, divan prizor, i uteha ljudskom duhu zauvek. Nažalost, to je nezamislivo i neizvodljivo. Svak umire u tami i teskobi svoga o?ajavanja, a ve?ina sa ose?anjem uzaludnosti svojih najboljih težnja i napora.

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

Let's go!' Peter yelled and ran off, his voice echoing through the mall. 'Last one to strike out at our imperialist oppressors is a Trotskyite stooge!' Some people stay in college way too long.

I was just trying to get his attention! the man protested at the top of his lungs. If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.