Quotes About Protest

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.