Quotes About Protest

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down there. He was in town to organize a rally against public transportation. Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, which was illegal back then.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.

STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.

The Freedom Riders literally put their lives and limbs on the line in order to bring about an America that lives up to its own stated ideals. They are nothing short of American patriots, and honoring them more than 60 years after their historic acts is the least we can do.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.

I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.