Quotes About Protest

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Patricia: What they did was stupid and cruel and why I am going to write the president of the United States telling him that if there is any place in this country where nuclear bomb testing should be allowed, it's Corpus Christi, Texas.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Bruce Springsteen, a long-time gay rights activist, has cancelled his North Carolina concert. He says the NC law #HB2 to prevent men from being able to use women's restrooms and locker rooms is going "backwards instead of forwards." Well, to be honest,

We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out

I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.

War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

the Occupy Movement flared up and began setting up tents in public parks all around the nation, from New York City to Chicago to Seattle. But it actually happened exactly eighty years earlier, when the nation was drowning in President Hoover's Great Depression, and not President Bush's Great Recession. These settlements weren't called "occupations" at the time, they were called "Hoovervilles.

The Everlasting No.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Protest is good; involvement is better; doing both is the best.

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.

There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.

do the rosa parks say no no do the rosa parks throw your hand in the air do the rosa parks say ... no no do the rosa parks tell them: that ain't fair

I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing.

There is no demonstration against Zionism, because even the European Parliament regards such a demonstration as anti-Semitic.

Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war

A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

The three major Allied powers finally issued their first formal protest against Nazi crimes against Jews on December 17, 1942.

Rebellions work. We've seen it. We've helped make it happen.