Quotes About Protest

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.