Quotes About Protest

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

Oppression is opposition.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

I am so proud of Pakistanis and specifically of our lawyers for speaking out and getting their heads bashed in for a better Pakistan.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.