Quotes About Protest

I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

History suggests that the disillusioned and the disaffected do not readily take to the streets nor man the barricades to defend a system that failed to defend them.

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity - and if big companies don't start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters' demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

I strongly support anyone's right to peacefully protest.

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.

What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I'm still struggling with it, 40 years later.

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

Anti-people policies of the BJP government have made strong opposition a necessity.