Quotes About Protest

We used to watch my father, who was a civil-rights activist, get arrested on TV sometimes, and we never knew if he was going to be home for dinner.

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end in the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change. —TIMOTHY SNYDER, On Tyranny

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

They'll say we're disturbing the peace,but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Misfortune is a test of people's fidelity. Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

George Wallace, who had been Governor of Alabama during the worst of the troubles there. Wallace had a knack of appealing to racists by inflammatory words and deeds

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem.

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?'

Cop Killer" was a protest song. It reflects how a lot of Black people were feeling in that particular historical moment. Folks in L.A. were at the point of exploding with rage at police brutality.

The shit hit the fan in '92 because that was an election year—"Cop Killer" was a ready-made target for the president, the vice president, and the NRA.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

they saw Cade's army swelling into the open like a burst blister.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

la aparición de una voz de protesta insistente e independiente— lo que molesta a sus superiores.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

If you want a revolution return to your childhood and kick out the bottom.