Quotes About Protest

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

I've always maintained that if I didn't have the boot and was talking serious things on the street corner, it would be very easy to ignore me.

We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets.