Quotes About Protest

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

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

We ain't goin' study war no more.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.