Quotes About Protest

We are witnessing a highly instructive and highly comical spectacle. The bourgeois liberal prostitutes are trying to drape themselves in the toga of revolution.

All and sundry manifestations of police tyranny and autocratic outrage, in addition to the evils connected with the economic struggle, are equally "widely applicable" as a means of "drawing in" the masses.

The Senate declined to pass a bill paying out the bonus, and Hoover sent regular army troops, tanks, and machine guns to clear the tent city. The aggressive move resulted in one hundred injuries and wounds. Some veterans attempted to set up camp again, and this time Washington police fired on them, killing William Hushka and Eric Carlson. Both are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Much-reduced bonus payments would eventually come in 1936.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

Art is a protest against death.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…

To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.

Twist and shout, métetelo donde te quepa... eso y no La Internacional era su himno.

Those who observe suffering are tempted to reject God; those who experience it often cannot give up on God, their solace and their agony." The presence of so many in church on a wintry night proved his point. "You can protest against the evil in the world only if you believe in a good God," Volf also said. "Otherwise the protest doesn't make sense.

Most importantly, he countered violence with nonviolence, and hatred with love. "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred," he exhorted his followers. "We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.

Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

Peacefully, and patriotically make your voices heard.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.