Quotes About Protest

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

Pandora, you promised to abide by the rules." "I do," Pandora protested, looking chagrined. "I follow all the rules that I can remember." "How is it that you remember the details of a plumbing system but not basic etiquette?" "Because plumbing is more interesting.

Every revolution starts with a spark on dry tinder.

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to look at.

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to

defenestration

I have to reregister a room for my heart. It's been waiting a long time, somewhere outside, without so much as a whisper of protest. That abandonment wasn't just an abuse, it was a sin.

We pray against things but fail to protest them. This low view of systemic sin, this privileged paradigm of power, makes it easy for us to ignore the way we treat women in church.

You're all a bunch of fucking slaves.

Obedience to the law, even unjust laws, had become one of the most egregious ways that ministers and their churches had become conformed to their culture.

The day when the elves finally go strike is the day when billions of school children cry.

Society is fickle, it's vain and self-obsessed. Watch how it'll judge without a chance to protest.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Governments didn't have to listen to the people until the people made it hurt not to listen.

My tea has overbrewed: it is bitter, but still drinkable. I turn on the television and return to the present. Four plump humanoid creatures, red, yellow, green and purple, are frolicking on a grassy hill. Rabbits nibble the grass. The creatures hug each other. A periscope emerges from a knoll and tells them they must say goodbye. After a little protest, they do, jumping one by one into a hole in the ground.

Scripture is perfect, and Paul's analogy is perfect for its purpose. It illustrates that the divine potter has the right to fashion the human clay into any type of vessel and for any purpose he chooses, and the creature has no right to protest against the Creator.

Se estes senhores daqui protestam contra mim, eu também protesto contra eles, e só lhes resta me ressarcir por perdas e danos amigavelmente, enfim, só lhes resta devolver-me o que perderei por sua culpa e ignorância.

When Beatlemania happened, it was as if the massed multitudes of projected wives-and-mothers of the world had screamed out, with one voice, 'We have been held captive too long, and WE WANT TO BE FREE!