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Quotes About Protest

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
~ David Brock
I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
~ Deborah K. Ross
It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.
~ Taboo
I want to stand up for free speech.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.
~ Morgan Ortagus
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
~ Karen Bass
Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
~ Barton Gellman
It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.
~ Jim Parsons
I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
~ Blake Griffin
We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.
~ Darryl Glenn
I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
~ Tom Stoppard
I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.
~ David Farr
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
~ Bhagat Singh
The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.
~ Jesse Helms
No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In order to exist, man must rebel.
~ Albert Camus
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
~ Barbara Deming
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.
~ Carl Sandburg
When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
~ Cesar Chavez
Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
~ Craig Ferguson
I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.
~ Fannie Hurst