Quotes About Protest

Many people have uninstalled Chinese apps. So when crores uninstall apps. It will be a message for the Chinese government when they are intruding into India.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

I canceled the Russian shows because, from the days of the first Dire Straits album, I've supported Amnesty International. It's not a good thing to read about people being jailed for no reason, so I raised my hand and made a small objection. It was good to do - but where do you stop?

Let's remember, a protest isn't supposed to appease everybody.

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don't see how, as an American citizen, you can't go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.

I remember 'The Shepherd's Dog' record being not necessarily a political record, but a reaction to socio-political situations in America. And it didn't manifest itself as protest or propaganda songs, but there's a lot of surreal imagery that was born out of really me being surprised Bush got re-elected in '04.

We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February?

When it comes to dealing with a social movement, society has only two options: either it can address the members' grievances, thereby making the movement irrelevant, or it can deflect those grievances and further radicalise the movement. Or as Sidney Tarrow puts it, actions that begin in the streets [can be] resolved in the halls of government or by the bayonets of the army.