Quotes About Protest

El famoso lema de Samuel Adams: «No taxation without representation» («No a los impuestos sin representación») no era un rechazo a lo británico, sino su afirmación enfática. Lo que los colonos decían estar haciendo era exigir la misma libertad disfrutada por los súbditos británicos al otro lado del Atlántico.

By midnight Theresa was yawning steadily, and Garrett suggested that she get some sleep. But I came down here to see you, she protested drowsily. But if you don't get your sleep, I'll look blurry.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough.

For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.

Kneeling and gesturing, turning your back on the flag and disrespecting the national anthem is gross, self-indulgent and moronic.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.

The evangelical Old Testament biblical scholar Christopher Wright states the matter even more strongly: "We are listening, not to a single voice, not even to a single choir in harmony, but to several choirs singing different songs with some protest groups jamming in the wings."[113]

His mouth found each of her eyelids, then drifted down her cheek to the corner of her lips. Don't protest. Just listen to me. I'v thought about this for a long time. Your life is in danger. You've accepted that, and you're willing to chance our love. But I couldn't live with your death at my hands. I can't, Isabella. He kissed her mouth, her soft, pliant lips, drawing strength from her, her endless courage becoming his.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on 'our side'. Is it?

Methinks the lady doth protest too much, said Iago. Methinks the lady protests just the right amount, said Emilia. Methinks the lady is just getting fucking started protesting.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Benno blushed violently. "I am not a murderer!" he protested. "No one is, until he commits his first crime," William said philosophically.

The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary—and that was the press.

One of the girls read somewhere that a red flag was the proper symbol for the oppressed workers, and so they mounted one, and paraded all about the yards, yelling with rage. A new union was the result of this outburst, but the impromptu strike went to pieces in three days, owing to the rush of new labour.

And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests—and so perfectly within their rights!

Of course it was wrong that some should be born to privilege while others did not have enough to eat. Of course it was right that the disinherited should protest and try to change the ancient evils of the world. Who would not demand food when he was starving? Who would not fight for liberty when he was oppressed? Who could fail to hate cruelty and injustice, and cry out for it to be ended?