Quotes About Protest

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.